At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior concepts. Likewise, math standards in each grade presume that ...

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This video is no longer available. After students eagerly entered Amanda Blevins’ classroom at Mosaic Elementary on Thursday afternoon, she returned a graded assignment and then shifted their ...

It’s kind of almost a reward for all the math that they had to learn up to that point," teacher Angie Kroger said.