Stellar athletes, successful entrepreneurs, and motivational speakers like to say that pressure makes diamonds. The higher the stakes and the harder the circumstances, the thinking goes, the more ...

There’s a line from the original Star Trek where Khan says, “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold.” Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron ...

Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods ...

There comes a moment in most of our lives when we realize that some secrets of the universe will remain hidden from us–not because mankind hasn’t discovered them, but because those secrets are encoded ...

A key instructional shift called for by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics is the dual emphasis on conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. NCTM draws a connection between these ...

As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and ...

Bundle the ones to make 10. Moving left on the number line. Skip counting. Gone are the days of rote memorization, constant addition and subtraction drills and learning long division before you knew ...

Teachers need supported opportunities to practice instructional approaches with students with disabilities using research-informed pedagogies (NCTM & CEC, 2024) that draw from both the fields of ...

When Rebecca Pariso agreed to join a team of educators tasked in late 2019 with California’s new mathematics framework, she said she expected some controversy. But she didn’t expect her work would be ...