BRITTANY JONES-COOPER: And you mentioned you have two small children at home. ALYSSA MILANO: I do. I have an 8 year old and a 5 year old. BRITTANY JONES-COOPER: So have you talked to them about this?

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

“If we’re going to be asked to do something, we just want it to stay the same so we can become experts on it and not have to learn something new every year,” said Healy, who is in her third year of ...

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One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

I enjoyed reading your recent discussion with Alex Baron, “How Much Autonomy Should Teachers Have Over Instructional Materials? ” In particular, I was struck by your skepticism about whether ...

Kenny Felder, a math teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, explains repeating decimals to calculus students in February 2019. Julia Wall News & Observer file photo State education leaders want to ...