As American students continue to flounder in math, Bellwether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve opportunities and ...

In recent years, the focus in math education has shifted from the traditional priority of answering the problem to one of understanding and articulating the process. This has been accompanied by a ...

Each activity will start with a list of learning outcomes and goals. Learning outcomes tell students what they need to be able to master in order to succeed on exams and homework. Learning goals tell ...

The Department of Mathematics is engaged in an ongoing effort to assess our programs. We have organized this effort around several learning goals. We measure student outcomes in these areas annually, ...

Nearly two decades ago, international math and science tests revealed mathematics instruction in the United States as an inch deep and a mile wide. Since then, we have grappled with how to get depth ...

At the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session, Vincent Graziano, a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, will present ...

The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 111, No. 6 (2018), pp. 704-719 (16 pages) This study investigated the relationship between three cognitive features of mathematical instruction tasks (high ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Pre-algebra (Math 1090) enhances students’ basic math skills through the study of key skill strands that are explored across different types of numbers, including whole numbers, fractions, signed ...