As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 27, No. 4, Special Issue: Myth or Reality?: Evaluating Common Practices and Beliefs in Education (December 2015), pp. 587-597 (11 pages) There is a long-standing ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We propose to assess conceptual knowledge of mathematical notions by having recourse to isomorphic word problems. We assumed that failing to ...

The May 5 article, “5 Research-Backed Ways to Help Students Catch up in Math,” reminded me of my early days as a teacher and school leader. I regularly worked one-on-one with middle and high school ...

The latest national test scores in reading, math and science reflect more of the same pattern in American education: Far too ...

WIESBADEN, Germany -- Students at Aukamm Elementary are getting hands-on experience in mathematical concepts that will lay the foundation for their future math learning, thanks to an enterprising ...

Since the 1970s, the NAEP Long-Term Trend Assessment (LTT) has tracked student academic performance, and it was last administered just before the pandemic. Those pre-pandemic results can be compared ...

International tests scores released this month provide further evidence that U.S. students are behind where they should be in math, a problem that has huge implications for their success in school and ...

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

Harrison Stalvey designed a new approach to writing exam questions for his Calculus 1 exams during the move to remote learning in Spring 2020 to avoid using a proctoring service. During the sudden ...

Statistics and geometry can seem disconnected from other areas of math, experts say, and teachers often get less preservice training in how to convey these concepts in the classroom. As a result, ...