The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ ...

Barbara Oakley, an engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., says the key to mathematics expertise is practice, not conceptual understanding as some common-core proponents would ...

Last week I talked about the nature of short-term, or working memory and how it helps it build expertise. This week, I want to talk a bit more about how that short-term memory builds long-term memory, ...

Since the 1970s, the NAEP Long-Term Trend Assessment (LTT) has tracked student academic performance, and it was last administered just before the pandemic. Those pre-pandemic results can be compared ...

The report declares that a truce is necessary in the so-called math wars. Traditionalists emphasize math facts and direct instruction of procedures, while progressives focus on conceptual ...

Last week I talked about the nature of short-term, or working memory and how it helps it build expertise. This week, I want to talk a bit more about how that short-term memory builds long-term memory, ...

Over 60,000 students have benefited from the math program built on how the brain naturally learns. A new analysis shows that ...

Difficulties in learning statistics primarily at the college-level led to a reform movement in statistics education in the early 1990s. Although much work has been done, effective learning designs ...

Mackey: More than 1,400 educators are providing instruction to 10,000 kids in topics such as data collection, analysis, ...

Journal of Science Education and Technology, Vol. 14, No. 5/6 (Dec., 2005), pp. 459-470 (12 pages) This study describes high school students' conceptual development of the basic astronomical phenomena ...