Math

Providing math students with positive feedback can help them clarify their thinking, take risks, and apply concepts in new contexts.

By ensuring that their grading methods accurately report content knowledge, teachers can promote and reward student growth.

To encourage kids to reach their fullest potential in math, consider adopting these four mindsets that help every student to thrive.

Exposure to a variety of approaches to problem-solving provides students with opportunities to improve their math skills.

Teachers can help students master grade-level content by giving feedback that supports independent learning and progress.

Teachers can use stories and poems to boost students’ understanding of math and science concepts while giving them extra reading practice.

Support provided by early childhood educators can put students on a path that will lead to success in math for years to come.

Writing improves learning by consolidating information in long-term memory, researchers explain. Plus, five engaging writing activities to use in all subjects.

Explaining concepts to their peers helps students shore up their content knowledge and improve their communication skills.

By reflecting on their math work in writing and drawings, students see what they’ve learned and find areas where they need to improve.

Open-ended questions guide students to participate and to think mathematically, which cements their learning.

Every child possesses vast mathematics potential, says Jo Boaler, Stanford University mathematics professor and best-selling author—but for them to access it, we need to rethink how we teach math.

Activities designed to help students believe in themselves may improve their math skills.

These games for upper elementary and middle school students require little to no preparation and reinforce math facts.

Math coaches can help teachers identify how their perceptions and teaching methods influence student success.