1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities Teaching elementary school math just got trickier, or at least deeper. The new Common Core State Standards ...

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 ...

The Old Rochester Regional School District and MA Superintendency Union #55 recently launched the enVision Math Program at ...

I’ve been mulling a story on how K-5 math instruction will change under the Common Core State Standards, which emphasize conceptual understanding over formulas and tricks—and how elementary teachers ...

Corey Webel hopes he won't hear future generations of adults utter the words: "Don't make me do math." Webel directs the elementary math specialist program at the University of Missouri, starting its ...

This course seeks to support students in furthering their understanding of elementary mathematics concepts. The goal is for students to not only pass the MTEL for elementary mathematics, but to lay ...

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Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2010), pp. 228-255 (28 pages) Teachers' understanding of the elementary school mathematics curriculum forms part, but ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

A former math hater offers tips that just might turn math dread into something less — or maybe even math love.