Veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered that math can be taught in an engaging way through the ancient game of mahjong, which requires strategy, analysis, problem solving, and math.
The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...
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Elections are all about numbers, sometimes hinging on miniscule percentage-point differences in turnouts. Math teacher Alison Strole’s middle school students know this better than your average ...
Like many students around the world, Eithne, 14, in Chorley, United Kingdom, was struggling to keep up in math at school after more than a year of COVID-19 related disruptions. In June 2021, her ...
One study found that as early as 2004, about one in four school districts nationwide had reduced instructional time in social studies to make more room for reading and math lessons. One in five said ...
Jessie Woolley-Wilson, president and CEO of education technology company DreamBox, did not originally plan on working in education. After receiving her MBA from Harvard, in 1990, she headed straight ...
Open up a classic mathematics textbook written by a Welshman, Robert Recorde, and flip past the preface and the table of contents. There, you'll see the bold statement that math is "contemptible and ...
Sixth graders Zoe and Amoni, right, work together during Kelly Woodfin’s advanced math class in Union Public Schools. The Tulsa-area school district for about a decade has tried to increase enrollment ...