The architects of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics explicitly aimed to sacrifice breadth for depth, but that proposition has raised questions about whether assessments can be developed ...

If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

Change is an ongoing process which results in positive or negative outcomes, although the expectations when changes are implemented are for the good. The underpinning theories and principles in ...

Experiencing math anxiety -- nervousness and discomfort in relation to math -- impairs math performance for some students, but new research shows that it's linked with improved performance for others, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the relation between mathematics anxiety (MA) and mathematics performance among school-aged ...

Imagine you are sitting in the back of a classroom, daydreaming about the weekend. Then, out of nowhere, the teacher calls upon you to come to the front the room and solve a math problem. In front of ...

After reporting about education for eight years in two states, Washington and Ohio, I know only one thing for sure: We tend to underestimate the complexity of teaching and learning. I learned to ...

Seattle Public Schools superintendent Brent Jones told the School Board that improving math and reading results is difficult on top of the already challenging task of catching students up after ...