While it is important to plan and invest the time at the beginning of the school year or semester engaging in tasks that allow us to get to know our students as mathematics learners, it’s equally ...

In classrooms across the country and world, teachers yearn for opportunities to come together and share ideas, stories, challenges, and practices, envisioning a world where all students can thrive.

Thinking about numbers using frames of 5 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills. (This applet ...

Join thousands of your peers at the premier math education event of the year! Network and exchange ideas, engage with innovation in the field, and discover new learning practices that will drive ...

NCTM is the world's leading mathematics education organization and advocates for high-quality mathematics teaching and learning for each and every student. Success on this count requires support from ...

Curriculum Focal Points are the most important mathematical topics for each grade level. They comprise related ideas, concepts, skills, and procedures that form the foundation for understanding and ...

When students become active doers of mathematics, the greatest gains of their mathematical thinking can be realized. The process of sense making begins when we create classrooms full of curious ...

Our students need mathematics to make sense of their world and increase their opportunities. As teachers, administrators, and education leaders, each and every student is counting on us, our policies, ...

The Designing Innovative Lessons and Activities for Mathematics Teaching Grant is sponsored by the Mary P. Dolciani Halloran Foundation. This grant supports the research-and-writing of mathematics ...

Research Clips and Briefs provide a foundation for taking what the research says about mathematics teaching and learning to teachers, administrators, school boards and parents. Email [email protected] ...

Several years ago, NCTM launched the Research Agenda Project. From this project, Linking Research and Practice—Challenges and Opportunities, was funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

Problems to Ponder is a popular monthly series of 28 varying, classroom-ready mathematics problems—designed for PK–grade 12 and available with membership through the Mathematics Teacher: Learning and ...