Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Building A Better Classroom. Educator John Hunter puts the world's problems on a 4 foot by 5 foot plywood board — and lets his fourth-graders solve them. At ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

SPEARFISH - Given the task of solving a problem or making something easier or better, fourth-graders at East Elementary in Spearfish got busy inventing a variety of products over the past few weeks.

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Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...