Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Aspiring and current secondary math educators from Mississippi State and Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District’s Partnership Middle School are engaging in professional ...

DoDEA Americas Secondary Math ISS Team recently concluded a groundbreaking professional development course, Building Thinking Classrooms, that brought together 114 pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade ...

Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

A math professor has spent 20 years experimenting with ways to improve student engagement, and now his teaching strategies are going viral. Many teachers are trying teaching approaches known as ...

Last year, one of my strongest students could solve complex equations flawlessly–but paused when I asked a simple question: “Why does this method work?” Her hesitation was not unusual. Many students ...

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow ...

This is the first article in a two-part series about rough draft math, a concept that applies a process from language arts — creating, discussing and revising rough drafts — to math classrooms. In ...

I’ve been publishing a multiyear series on small teaching moves educators can make in the classroom, and today’s post is the first in a continuation of that series that will extend through this school ...

The Hechinger Report covers inequality and innovation in education to show the public how education can be improved and why it matters. When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a ...