How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...
When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...
Vern Williams teaches honors math at Longfellow Middle School in Fairfax County, Va. He was named to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel in 2006. Updated March 27, 2011, 1:24 PM I decided to ...
A Hungarian-born mathematician and theorist, Zoltan Dienes believed in using games, songs and dance in learning math to make it more fun for children. "Give me a mathematical structure and I'll turn ...