Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...
Districts are already making large financial investments into core programs. So why are they still buying more resources to make up for what their textbooks can’t do? Let’s be honest about what’s ...
Developed by teachers, for teachers, Share My Lesson gives access to high-quality teaching resources and provides an online community where teachers can collaborate with, encourage and inspire one ...
Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. And not always as reward for a correct answer. Teachers use them as conceptual props to explain an operation like division. It ...
The 6th-grade unit on "Enlarged and Reduced Figures" is not a new topic that starts out of nowhere.In 4th grade, students learned about angle sizes while drawing triangles. In 5th grade, they drew ...
Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been adopted as the reading and math standards of more than 40 states. All but a few states scheduled full implementation of the standards, including ...
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The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress just painted a dismal picture of math performance in America’s schools, continuing to show more than a decade of stagnation.
Math at the Core on PBS LearningMedia is a collection of almost 400 middle school math videos, interactive media, and integrated activities, produced by a collaborative of ten public media ...
Purveyors of the inquiry-based and student-centered math agenda, which has persisted for more than 20 years, argue traditionally taught math has never worked for the vast majority of the nation’s ...