Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework. That’s starting to change, ...

I’ve been mulling a story on how K-5 math instruction will change under the Common Core State Standards, which emphasize conceptual understanding over formulas and tricks—and how elementary teachers ...

Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. And not always as reward for a correct answer. Teachers use them as conceptual props to explain an operation like division. It ...

Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...

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This course seeks to support students in furthering their understanding of elementary mathematics concepts. The goal is for students to not only pass the MTEL for elementary mathematics, but to lay ...

Corey Webel hopes he won't hear future generations of adults utter the words: "Don't make me do math." Webel directs the elementary math specialist program at the University of Missouri, starting its ...

Running out of time to complete a learning unit on math fractions, Concord Elementary third grade teacher Brianne Sinden ...

I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and I hope you all emerged from the holidays rested, relaxed and ready to grapple with the problems of the world. Dear Homeroom: Regarding your Dec. 12 column ...

GODFREY Lewis and Clark Community College’s Professor of Mathematics Molly Freimuth is the winner of the 2025 Emerson ...

"I get sent tricky maths questions all the time, so I thought this one would be a piece of cake," Bobby Seagull told Newsweek ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...