Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...