“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

University researchers are exploring a new way to use large language models (LLMs) for middle school math education. Researchers at George Mason University and William and Mary University have created ...