Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...

I am tired of hearing negative comments about how the Common Core State Standards inhibit creativity. It is a directional pacing guide that provides teachers the freedom to be flexible and creative ...

In Part I of this series, I discussed why it is important to teach K-12 students critical thinking skills. In Part II, I will discuss how educators can accomplish this. I was a public school teacher ...

This article describes an intervention with preservice mathematics teachers intended to address the use of Interactive Geometry Software (IGS) for mathematics instruuction. A unit of instruction was ...

For close to 50 years, educators and politicians from classrooms to the Oval Office have stressed the importance of graduating students who are skilled critical thinkers. Content that once had to be ...