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? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...

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 ...

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The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ ...

Jessie Woolley-Wilson, president and CEO of education technology company DreamBox, did not originally plan on working in education. After receiving her MBA from Harvard, in 1990, she headed straight ...

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To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

The skills we gain during school mathematics—problem-solving, pattern-finding, reasoning logically, and computational ...

Since its launch in 2011, Duolingo has become one of the most popular language teaching tools in the entire world, with over 500 million users learning to read and speak over 100 different languages.

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 ...