The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) jointly recognize the important role of educators in ensuring students with disabilities have ...
Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in ...
Thus “new math” was born, and teachers nationwide modified their methods in order to apply the federal standards to traditional mathematical practices, says Lynette Washington, a senior lead ...
The predominantly Asian approach to teaching mathematics in schools, called the "mastery approach," is spreading, largely due to the fact these countries are high-performers on international tests.
Allessandra Reyes by her own admission “was really bad at math” in high school. The now 18-year-old freshman at College of the Canyons, a community college in Santa Clarita, failed Algebra II in 10th ...