After a year of distance learning, the range of skill levels in math class is very wide, with some students still learning concepts from several grades behind. That means teachers have to get creative ...
With the right lesson plan, teachers can turn struggling students into budding mathematicians. The secret is carefully guiding their adventure in numbers I still vividly remember the day, 14 years ago ...
A dozen parents gathered around veteran math educator Leanna Baker, moments before students show up for what is billed as a math “festival” for students at Allendale Elementary School in Oakland. “Do ...
ANAHEIM – Nine year-old Nancy Ruiz sits down at a cafeteria table strewn with small circular plastic chips, and cautiously examines a sheet of paper with a diagram for the “chip number puzzle.” The ...
Math and fun -- two words you probably wouldn’t put together in most cases, but now one group of students in the Valley is working to change that one puzzle at a time. “I get an adrenaline rush ...
On Tuesday night, more than a thousand Howard County students and their parents gathered at Long Reach High School to participate in a wide variety of math-related activities, from cooking to sports ...
Back in 2008, I read a story about a teacher who used NASCAR to make learning math less painful for his students. Tom Baughman, then teaching the fourth grade, called it “NASCAR Math,” and takes the ...
Pi is undoubtedly the world's most popular irrational number. And that's because it's unequivocally cool — I mean, what other mathematical constant has its own day? On its face, pi is a simple concept ...