Mathematics

All Anchorage schools will be closed for the next week while the Alaska district fixes widespread damage from Friday’s 7.0 earthquake, Superintendent Deena Bishop announced. Each of the schools sustained some kind of damage, from scattered materials to ceilings reduced to rubble. All Anchorage schools will be closed for the next week while the district […]

T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges. But the school cut corners and doctored college applications. Bryson Sassau’s application would inspire any college admissions officer. A founder of T.M. Landry College Preparatory School described him as a “bright, energetic, compassionate and genuinely […]

How can mathematics educators benefit from professional learning? It’s helpful for teachers to develop a shared image of what instruction looks like in mathematics. Classroom videos are really helpful; when teachers are preparing to teach a module, they are making sense of the standards for that module, they’re looking at the learning arc for that module, they’re seeing how concepts are linked to […]

As a longtime elementary school teacher, Jolene Rude has seen her share of students struggle with—and sometimes abandon—difficult math problems. After using Everyday Mathematics 4, however, even struggling students are learning challenging math concepts, along with life skills, says Rude, an elementary CORE math teacher at Johnston Community School District, located in a northern suburb […]

In most of the developed world, high-stakes tests make or break a student’s future, sometimes before the age of 12. Many countries use national benchmarks to assess students, and construct tests to gauge understanding of the core curriculum. This was an original goal of the Common Core, but in the U.S., standardized tests have become […]

Dr. Matt Larson, discusses how research-informed instructional strategies support effective teaching and learning of mathematics.