Education Week

How This Teacher Makes Math a Team Sport—and Gets Kids Excited to Participate

Multiplication and long division rarely get pep rallies. But Michaela Sicuranza, a 5th grade teacher at Sinking Springs Elementary, in York, Pa., thinks building an exciting, competitive identity ...
The Vicksburg Post

TEACHER OF THE YEAR: Caston believes in teaching responsibility

South Park Elementary math teacher Adrian Caston, a nominee for Educator of the Year, puts students in the teacher’s seat and ...
EdSurge

We Need More Math Teachers. Here’s How to Prepare Them for Life in the Classroom.

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...
KSAT

One way to boost students’ scores? Help teachers conquer their math anxiety

CHICAGO – In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who ...
Education Week

Do Future Teachers Have Math Anxiety? Their University Instructors Think So

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...
Government Technology

AI-Based Professional Development Improves Math Teaching

(TNS) — When middle school math teachers completed an online professional development program that uses artificial intelligence to improve their math knowledge and teaching skills, their students’ ...
Chalkbeat

Here’s how Colorado’s ‘Oscars of teaching’ award winner helps sixth graders tackle math

Shana Engel, a teacher in Colorado Springs, talked about how her mother’s struggle to learn English shaped her approach and ...
Opinion
The Santa Fe New MexicanOpinion

A push for teachers to improve math skills and instruction

My students know all too well that if they need help in math, I’m the last teacher to ask. Math was extremely hard for me in school. Numbers moved around ...
Opinion

Teachers who fail math shouldn't be allowed to teach it | Opinion

Ohio's Senate Bill 19 would prohibit teachers from leading math instruction until they meet a minimum standard.
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Writing lesson ...

Life-long educator lived through civil rights era, integration and was first African American math teacher at West Monroe HS

MONROE, La. (KTVE / KARD)–Rotena Hicks Russell has seen a lot of change in her 87 years of life, a large portion of it as an ...
Christian Science Monitor

One way to boost math scores? Help teachers conquer their math anxiety.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...