Combining day-to-day math practice and cumulative assessment allows teachers to be more effective—and efficient. December 6, 2022 Josh Britton is a former teacher and the founder and CEO of Get More Math, which helps teachers break the math forgetting cycle in grades 3–11 with targeted practice that combines new material with spiral review to enhance…
Jeanette Nicholas, Teacher, Belle Fourche Middle School Jeanette Nicholas is a math teacher at Belle Fourche Middle School in South Dakota. She has 35 years of math teaching experience. As students return to class this fall, K–12 teachers and administrators face many challenges—and math instruction is high on the list. Although state assessment data from…
For many students, math and anxiety go hand-in-hand. According to a new study, this anxiety can hinder how students study math. In the study, researchers found that math-anxious students – even if they are good students overall – spend more time passively studying the textbook than engaging with real-world math problems, which is a better…
Brenda Lynch, Retired Secondary Math Instructional Specialist, New Caney Independent School District Brenda Lynch is a retired math specialist. She spent the last eight of her 40 year-career in education at New Caney Independent School District in Texas. Picture this: a student enters your classroom, a negative attitude at the ready. They are distant during…
Donald Spangler, Teacher and Department Chair, Lampeter-Strasburg School District Donald Spangler is in his 17th year of teaching high school algebra and is the math department chair at Lampeter-Strasburg School District in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Even the best math teachers have had students who ace the chapter tests just to go on and struggle with…
Donald Spangler June 13, 2022 Here it comes – the break your students have been itching to start, but the one that makes most teachers nervous. You’ve spent the last year getting your students to master foundational, grade-level math skills, and now summer vacation starts. How can you keep them from forgetting everything they’ve learned…
