Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework. That’s starting to change, ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 16, No. 5 (Nov., 1985), pp. 364-374 (11 pages) Forty-eight students with no previous exposure to probability or statistics read one of three texts ...

Elementary school teachers in this country, by and large, are generalists. That means they’re required to teach everything—math, science, language arts, history, you name it, regardless of how ...

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 ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Teaching elementary school math just got trickier, or at least deeper. The new Common Core State Standards require ...

Humble Independent School District students recently competed in the fourth annual elementary Math Olympiad Tournament. The tournament was the culmination of more than five months of preparation, as ...

At dinner tables across Florida, parents and their elementary school children are trying to solve a math problem: What’s going on with my kid’s homework? Florida is one of dozens of states that has ...