I started my teaching career at a large comprehensive high school, teaching math exactly as I had been taught. Each day, I introduced my students to a new type of problem, solved a problem for them, ...

A little over two years ago, my current principal, Danny Swersky, emailed me about his vision for math instruction at KIPP: Washington Heights Middle School, a charter school that would soon be ...

As a mathematics educator for the last seven years, I can attest that most folks believe they either are or are not “math people.” And that idea of innate math ability is very harmful to both those ...

If a college baseball coach wants to improve the hitting average of his team, what should he do in batting practice? Is it more effective to have the players hit 15 fastballs, then 15 curve balls, ...

A student uses My Math Academy. Dozens, maybe even hundreds of writers have pecked and published countless stories about pandemic-related learning gaps – the knowledge and skills that students have ...

WestEd, a nonprofit that helps education companies research and develop their products for feasibility, usability, implementation and efficacy, has been awarded a nearly $3.5 million grant from the ...

What makes a good math teacher? Smart students who are talented in math? A mathematician’s brain? Or simply the patience to teach students who learn at their own pace and in their own way? It took me ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As a young child in Long Island, New York, I struggled to learn how to count. I relied on my fingers to get from one to ...