Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

Typically, middle school math is a one-size-fits-all experience. To prepare for high school math, students study prealgebra, then algebra — rarely moving beyond. This standard approach is especially ...

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Tom Evert is a “teaching artist” who teaches math and geometry through the lens of interpretive dance at various Northeast Ohio schools. “We use dance to demonstrate our principles,” explained the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — Ella Hereth, a geometry teacher at IPS’ Harshman Middle School, learned this month that she won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

AS “A Father” has asked me by name in your columns what book I can recommend as laying a foundation for the geometry of the future, I suppose I ought to answer him, though I cannot do so by a simple ...