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Mathematics

Making math relevant starts with valuing your students’ experiences

Anita Crowder -
What if, instead of seeing students as empty vessels that must be filled with math concepts, we made the knowledge students already have the foundation of instruction?a

How data-driven math instruction improves outcomes measurably

Barbara Haeffner -
Our comprehensive approach is based on being open to change and includes giving teachers access to engaging software, student data, coaches, consultants, PD—and, most importantly, more time to teach.

Superintendent’s Playbook: How to make more progress with interventions

Matt Zalaznick -
"It forces collaboration between social studies, math, English and science teachers," explains Superintendent John Dignan of Wayne-Westland Community Schools, about embedding interventions into core instruction. "They're working together and our kids are getting the medicine they need—it's not just about remediation, it's about acceleration."

5 charts to help us visualize the state of public education right now

Matt Zalaznick -
One in five teachers in states without restrictions on race- and gender-related topics reported narrowing their instructional choices. And all educators remain divided over carrying guns in school.

3 ways to design virtual learning experiences that boost math scores

Todd Mahler -
Most teachers understand that math learning recovery depends on data-informed, student-centered instruction. But without the right technology, it’s a methodology that’s difficult to deliver.

How to ensure that each student believes they are a ‘math person’

Amber Gardner -
We are all "math people"—we may just not have had the opportunity to learn math in school the way our brain is naturally designed to learn.

Recovery on hold? How academic growth sputtered in 2022-23

Matt Zalaznick -
The road to recovery remains rocky as the academic growth that most students made in the 2022-23 school year failed to match pre-pandemic norms, according to data on grades 3-8 released Tuesday.

How to build relationships that engage students in online math tutoring

Johnelle Dufour -
As a teacher who’s worked in both traditional and virtual classrooms and as an online math tutor, here’s how I do my best to instill a love of math in my students.

Math scores for this one group of students show historic, long-term decline

Matt Zalaznick -
There are no "green shoots’" of academic recovery emerging, with the Nation's Report Card showing the largest-ever drop in math scores by 13-year-old students and decreases in reading.

How do you boost math proficiency? The answer lies in classroom and research data

Amanda VanDerHeyden -
The greatest loss in math proficiency since 1990 is alarming, but the alarm has been going off since the early 2000s.

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