About a decade ago, leaders at the Kentucky Department of Education set out to develop guidelines for what quality math instruction should looked like in the state, convening educators from the ...

The Math & Science Department of Pratt Institute is charged with providing courses that contribute to the requirements of specific majors as well as courses that fulfill Pratt’s General Education ...

All routes to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees run through calculus classes. Each year, hundreds of thousands of college students take introductory calculus. But only a ...

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 ...

Over a decade ago, I learned about a pioneering course at Cabrillo College in California. In it, students collected survey data in their neighborhoods on issues such as youth gangs or discrimination ...

Dr. Dyana Harrelson’s teaching responsibilities include general education math courses, calculus courses and statistics courses. When teaching math to a general education audience, her goal is to ...

A more than $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Racial Equity In STEM Education program will support a project to develop new professional learning resources for K-12 math teachers ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

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