The first time Richard Wong stood in front of a lecture hall of hundreds of students, it felt like a performance. “It was kind of scary to be like, ‘Here’s a class of 210 students. Teach them ...
The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do you integrate writing in math classes? All teachers these days are supposed to be literacy teachers, including math educators. Yes, students need to read word ...
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, ...
Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.
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