The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...

Image courtesy of McGraw Hill. Imagine learning how to determine the slope of a right triangle by sending your own tiny skier down ski trails or by setting up skateboard ramps for a virtual skater to ...

By incorporating this quick physical game into a math lesson, teachers help students focus on the task at hand.

For nearly an hour, no one speaks a word of English in this first-grade math class. Not the teacher, Ying Ying Wu, who talks energetically in Mandarin’s songlike tones. Not the students — 6- and ...

Elections are all about numbers, sometimes hinging on miniscule percentage-point differences in turnouts. Math teacher Alison Strole’s middle school students know this better than your average ...

Adding jumping jacks and running on the spot to math and language classes helps students to learn, say Dutch researchers, adding to findings on the benefits of physically active lessons. In ...

Students in Glassboro teacher Karen Peale's Book and Cook Program can count on eating the fruits of their math lessons. That's because Peale is teaching students math, language arts, science and life ...

A public school teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia, ties his math lessons to football, aiming for his students to better understand and engage with class content. “If you look like me, you can still ...