Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

This article aims to contribute to the theory of mathematics instruction by highlighting and analysing Leen Streefland's work as a teacher in a primary school. Core ideas of Streefland's are discussed ...

When instructors at Bronx-area community colleges applied for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how students think about fundamental concepts of calculus, they hoped to gain a better ...

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2011), pp. 131-147 (17 pages) Abstract This paper reports on a qualitative action research study which utilises a ...

Oak Park and River Forest teacher Sheila Hardin was named the state’s best math teacher by the Illinois Council of Teachers ...

"Web 2.0 has the potential to change the way we learn and teach mathematics not unlike what Apple Computer did back in 1984 with their launch of the Macintosh, which changed the way everyone uses ...