Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...
Edutopia

Upper Elementary Math Center Activities That Feature Manipulatives

Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods ...
The Hechinger Report on MSN

Talk nerdy to me: Teachers who use math vocabulary help students do better in math

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...
EdSource

‘It’s a big world out there’: Teachers take math outside the classroom

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by ...
EdSurge

To Close the Math Achievement Gap, We Must Recognize What Students Bring to the Classroom

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow ...
Yahoo

Kindergarten Math is Often Too Basic. Here’s Why That’s a Problem

This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent ...
EdSurge

3 Lessons I Learned Moving from Classroom to Cubicle—The Importance of Creativity, Reach, and Kid Fix

My 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Benaltable, turned the ordinary into the extraordinary and made the mundane exciting. I remember once she spread shaving cream on our desks when we practiced multiplication ...
New York Post

Math and computer science teachers are embracing chatbots in the classroom

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...
The Washington Post

Teachers are using theater and dance to teach math — and it’s working

The children puffed out their chests and mimicked drama teacher Melissa Richardson, rehearsing their big, booming “rhino voices.” “Giant steps, giant steps, big and bold!” the kindergartners yelled in ...
EdTech

5 Ways to Integrate Interactive Whiteboards into Classroom Lessons

Pete Dulany, a former high school business education teacher, is managing partner of Dulany Consulting and a senior collaborator at Educational Collaborators. When students work with virtual ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...