Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.

At dinner tables across Florida, parents and their elementary school children are trying to solve a math problem: What’s going on with my kid’s homework? Florida is one of dozens of states that has ...

The future elementary school teachers that Mark Montgomery works with at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, share a common fear: Most of them are “extremely anxious” about math.

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RICHLAND -- It's obvious Amy Roth McDuffie is passionate about teaching math. The Washington State University Tri-Cities education professor gestures frequently as she explains to her class of 23 ...

What mathematical knowledge do elementary teachers use in teaching? About 10 years ago, Deborah Ball and her colleagues at Michigan State University carried out a research project to address this ...

THIS unpretentious but trustworthy book deserves a cordial welcome, and is likely to serve a very useful purpose. There is sound sense in the author's conviction that teachers of elementary ...

It's 9,688 miles to Singapore from Katrina Abdussalaam's third-grade classroom in Bruce-Monroe Elementary School@Park View. Each morning, she tries to edge her students closer to those from the Asian ...