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When she was in high school herself, she was not thinking about becoming a math teacher. “I cried my way through Algebra 1,” Canfield said. “I was not a good math student in high school and ...
YOU CAN ALSO SEE ALL OF THE "ALYCE CLARKE" RECIPIENT Nicole Matthews, a math teacher at Richland High School in Rankin County, was surprised with the Alyce Clarke Award, which recognizes her ...
May 9—SOLON SPRINGS — As a middle school math teacher at Solon Springs, Kelsey Rider is constantly on the move. On Monday, April 28, she walked students through mapping box and whisker plots ...
Many elementary teachers have math anxiety stemming from their own schooling, which can impact their students' math performance. Ohio colleges are working to better prepare future teachers by ...
To that end, she has studied the challenges beginning teachers face in teaching math, and she offers ways to support them while raising the confidence of their young students. A paper co-authored ...
Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the ...
The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools’ difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. But certainly, it seems ...
Two recent studies show that K-12 teachers’ nagging ignorance of fundamentals has contributed to historic declines in U.S. math performance. The National Council on Teacher Quality reported ...
The sixth-grade math teacher was concerned about what the technology would mean for the education world, and more specifically, what it would mean for the role and the workload of a teacher.
Katie Welch, a seventh-grade math teacher, was named West Central Regional Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education. Welch is a finalist for teacher of the year in Illinois.
Longbranch Elementary School fifth grade math teacher Jenna Stewart thought she was attending a schoolwide assembly as part of a visit from Kentucky Commissioner of Education Robbie Fletcher.
Teachers report thinking that if girls do better in math than boys, it is probably because of their innate ability and effort. But they also report that when boys do well in math, it is more ...