The May 23 article, “Three Ways to Build Student Confidence in Math,” resonated deeply with my research on psychological safety and feedback in math classrooms. The article highlights formative ...

What started as a 50-point class project has become a published tool for changing how students think about mathematics.

In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by staring at a whiteboard and copying zeros. They go to a beach and count grains of sand. “Some of them start by ...

For generations, math has been taught according to the same, basic class structure—teachers lecture their students on concepts, and then ask them to work individually on math problems in their ...

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“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

Kisen Yao, Shirley You and Eric Shin recently beat out thousands of other students to advance to the finals of an ...

Associate Professor of Mathematics Katy Ott was the first teacher to introduce Nerea Barranco Aramburu ’25 to the experience of learning through small group collaboration. Ott also introduced Arumbu ...

ANAHEIM – Nine year-old Nancy Ruiz sits down at a cafeteria table strewn with small circular plastic chips, and cautiously examines a sheet of paper with a diagram for the “chip number puzzle.” The ...

Prior to the COVID pandemic, technology integration in my high school math classroom was mainly used in two ways: discovery-based activities and homework assignments. Finding applicable resources for ...

Zearn Math is helping schools tackle declining math performance by combining digital lessons, teacher-led instruction, and real-time data to build strong numeracy skills. Consistent use—three or more ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.