Burleigh: Are students being equipped with a genuine understanding of math concepts or merely trained to follow steps?

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Provide opportunities for students to engage in data and statistical reasoning using authentic datasets. Use real-life civic and social contexts, such as housing costs, pollution, and school funding, ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...

Every curricular area has a global dimension that can be taught in the classroom, including math. This is often the area that is most difficult for people to grasp as being global, but math helps us ...

" for the English Language Arts standards. A lot of people (including some educators) have a lot of anxiety about math: How do we teach it? How do we learn it? How do we remember it all and use it ...

Teachers need supported opportunities to practice instructional approaches with students with disabilities using research-informed pedagogies (NCTM & CEC, 2024) that draw from both the fields of ...