It is a scandal that so little attention has been paid to attracting better-qualified math teachers to American schools. Results from the most recent study of the Program for International Student ...

NCEE’s Center on International Education Benchmarking released an important new report this week by noted Australian researcher Ben Jensen and his colleagues at Learning First. Not So Elementary: ...

The Elementary Education program is designed for students who wish to teach in grades 1-6. The program stresses a humanistic approach to teaching that is both developmentally appropriate and ...

Most California teacher preparation programs are failing to adequately train future teachers to teach elementary school level mathematics, according to a National Council on Teacher Quality report ...

Providence, RI -- During the "New Math" movement of the 1960s, a team of mathematicians developed a new structure for elementary mathematics. Instead of having a single subject, namely, school ...

In colonial times and the early years of the Republic, most girls who learned a bit of math studied at home or in dame schools. They might sew numbers onto a sampler, as in the example shown. When ...

THIS unpretentious but trustworthy book deserves a cordial welcome, and is likely to serve a very useful purpose. There is sound sense in the author's conviction that teachers of elementary ...

Prof. Emeritus Max S. Bell, an influential scholar of mathematics education who co-authored the widely-used curriculum Everyday Mathematics, died March 6. He was 90. A longtime professor at the ...

Farmington Elementary fourth-grade math teacher Anna Brignole was one of 140 teachers honored with the 2018 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The award presented ...

LOTHIAN, Md., June 12, 2025 — Chelsea McDonald, a fourth-grade teacher at Lothian Elementary School, has been named the 2025 Elementary School Outstanding Mathematics Educator by the Maryland Council ...