The National Council on Teacher Quality has argued that the courses offered by teacher colleges to prepare elementary math teachers are impractical, vague, and both short on math content and the ...

Most of the training for high-level math competitions happens outside of regular school hours, as I wrote recently. But at least one teacher in Florida has found a way around that—and it’s paid off to ...

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 ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that most states fall short when it comes to preparing and supporting elementary teachers to effectively teach math, despite the ...

Society is moving toward a technology driven world where most careers require some technological knowledge. This is no exception in the math department. Department Chair, Robin Roundy embraced the ...

Countries that best prepare math teachers meet several key conditions generally lacking in the United States, according to the first international study of what teacher preparation programs are able ...

Harm Derksen, mathematics professor and local supervisor for the Putnam Mathematical Competition, explains a proof during a Problem Solving Seminar yesterday. Stumped already? This is just a sampling ...

When Eric Weber, professor and chair of mathematics at Iowa State University, talks about data science with future math teachers, he doesn't begin with code, algorithms, or buzzwords. Instead, he asks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elementary-level teacher preparation programs could use a significant overhaul in the area of mathematics, according to a new ...

If your student intends to go to college, it’s important that they take the right math curriculum during high school. Beth Meier of the Barrington Huntington Learning Center says that students should ...

Sitting in a high school math class, utterly befuddled by the concept of graphing a useless polynomial, the students begin to riot, challenging the teacher with the seemingly unanswerable question, ...

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