To be effective, professionals in K-12 mathematics and science education must have a deep understanding of two cultures—the world of inquiry and problem solving that is central to mathematics and ...

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Become the math teacher your future students need. There’s a difference between learning a subject and learning to teach it. You’ll want to do both to be the kind of teacher that inspires their ...

What is your most memorable math lesson? For me, it was when Mrs. Kaylor helped us visualize and understand place value by building straw men as we counted straws by units of one, ten, and a hundred.

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, ...

Esther Arce-Reed demonstrates how to toss the dough made during a bread-making demonstration that she and her husband turn into lessons in math and science. (Larry Jackson) In the cafeteria of Paint ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

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