American students remain stumped by math. The 2019 scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress test, NAEP, show that performance for fourth- and eighth-graders hasn’t budged since 2009.
Hannah Moulton teaches Algebra 1. But before her 9th graders get started on graphing linear functions or solving quadratic equations, she makes sure that they have a much more basic skill down pat.
Extra pages of math problems — really hard ones — to be worked out after school and on weekends are the stuff of high school nightmares. The teacher who can make that sound like fun and then make it ...
Whenever March 14 rolls around, I think of the best math teacher I ever knew. Why March 14? That is Pi Day, 3.14. One of the formulas that math students learn is ∏ r2, or pi times the radius squared, ...
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? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...