Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

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 ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A Executive Summary: Attracting Science and Mathematics PhDs to Secondary School Education." National Research Council. 2002. Attracting PhDs to K-12 Education: A ...

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 ...