Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

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About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

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During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

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Linda Hobbs has received funding from the Australian Research Council for a Discovery Grant focused on teaching out-of-field. Calls for universities to recruit more science and maths students as a way ...

The teacher licensure program for middle school mathematics is an innovative new track for nonmath majors interested in teaching mathematics in the middle grades 6–8, an area of high demand across ...

Were you a kid who struggled in math class? If so, vivid recollections of poring over algebra homework trying to understand the inscrutable equations are probably core memories from your school years.

Lizzy Staugler ’24, ’25 enjoys helping students find their way through the unfamiliar thickets of high school and college mathematics in much the same way she enjoyed guiding her young charges toward ...