Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

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When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

Matthew Karabinos was hesitant to try ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool, when it first came out in 2022. The 6th grade math teacher was concerned about what the technology would mean ...

Lipscomb Academy's Pat Wood named The Tennessean's Teacher of the Week for math instructors.