Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

Children begin learning mathematics well before they enter elementary school. Starting from infancy and continuing throughout the preschool period, they develop a base of skills, concepts, and ...

Mathematical terms used here: additive inverse, subtrahend, minuend, addend. The additive inverse of a number is what we must add to the number to get zero. For every positive number, the negative ...

Before conducting the experiment, participants attended a training session. In this session, the details of the experiment were explained for the participants, and several items were presented to them ...

Hand gestures and actions-with-objects (hereafter ‘actions’) are both forms of movement that can promote learning. However, the two have unique affordances, which means that they have the potential to ...

Whether it is your first year or your 40th year of teaching, you know how important it is to have a quick activity or a game ready for those unexpected moments when your lesson ran short, there’s a ...

I’ll be the first to admit that math isn’t my strongest subject. I’d even go as far as saying I’m pretty much innumerate (illiterate but for numbers – not a real word but go with it.) With that being ...

As surely as 2+2=4, it also equals a beginning step on students’ mathematics journey. Single-digit addition facts like these are so heavily used in mathematics that it’s critical that students ...

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“Darla, as you were comparing 2/6 and 2/4, I heard you mention that 2/4 equals 1/2. Can you tell me more about your thinking?” Are you curious about what Darla, a third-grade student, might say next?