How many people are on the earth? How fast is the population growing? When will we run out of the resources needed to sustain life on our planet? Students explore these and other questions about ...

Join NCTM as we celebrate our Centennial with 100 Days of Professional Learning - live, free webinars presented by selected speakers from the NCTM Centennial Annual Meeting program that was to be held ...

I love the story of Carl Friedrich Gauss—who, as an elementary student in the late 1700s, amazed his teacher with how quickly he found the sum of the integers from 1 to 100 to be 5,050. Gauss ...

In the August 2014 issue of Teaching Children Mathematics, authors Karen S. Karp, Sarah B. Bush, and Barbara J. Dougherty initiated an important conversation in the elementary mathematics education ...

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics scores for grades 4 and 8 underscore persistent challenges in mathematics education and highlight the urgency of improving ...

Data science captures the complexity of data and data methods that have arisen with advances in technology. It is a collaborative science that uses complex data and methodology to identify and explain ...

Tennessee Mathematics Teachers' Association 2025 Annual Conference<br />Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville, TN<br />9/25/2025 2:00:00 PM<br /><p>Human ...

People of all ages love to play games that are fun and motivating. Games give students opportunities to explore fundamental number concepts, such as the counting sequence, one-to-one correspondence, ...

RESTON, Va., Sept. 25, 2024 - The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is excited to announce the release of High School Mathematics Reimagined, Revitalized, and Relevant. This ...

We are glad to have the opportunity to present at the 2017 annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. It’s an opportunity for us to share our knowledge and experiences. We have ...

Sue O’Connell has years of experience as an elementary classroom teacher, math coach, district school improvement specialist, and math speaker/consultant. She is the author of numerous books that ...

Solving a hairy math problem might send a shudder of exultation along your spinal cord. But scientists have historically struggled to deconstruct the exact mental alchemy that occurs when the brain ...