After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to ...

Like many specialized fields, mathematics has its own language. Many math terms have a definition that is different from that of the same word in everyday, non-math speech. Therefore, it is important ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 31, No. 1/2, Socio-Cultural Approaches to Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Sep., 1996), pp. 175-200 (26 pages) A variety of researchers in the last fifteen ...

In Erin Bryan’s 5th grade math classroom, TGIF takes on a whole new meaning. Fridays don’t just herald the coming weekend. They’re also game days. “They all come in here on Fridays pumped,” said Bryan ...

Hannah Moulton teaches Algebra 1. But before her 9th graders get started on graphing linear functions or solving quadratic equations, she makes sure that they have a much more basic skill down pat.