Faced with curriculum changes, two teachers found parents of students were frustrated when helping their children with homework, as they didn't understand the "new ways" of doing math. How did the teachers respond? By teaching the parents! Check out these videos of students explaining strategies. Continue reading…
As any Primarily Math teacher will tell you, the purpose for a career in elementary education is all about the students. The Child-Belief survey was developed to learn how young students view themselves as learners of mathematics. What we learned from the results may surprise you. Continue reading…
An article featuring the Primarily Math program titled "Distributed Leadership: Key to Improving Primary Students’ Mathematical Knowledge" by Wendy Smith (UNL) and Matt Larson (LPS), was published in the 2013 volume of Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College. Read the article here. Continue reading…
OPS TLA Math in the Middle teacher Tricia Krause has a classroom challenge! Tricia put up a board called "How Many Ways are There to Make Change for a Dollar?" at the beginning of the year and challenged her students to find all 293 ways. Continue reading…
Children are quick to ask "why?" and "how?" when it comes to new things, but research suggests elementary and preschool students learn more when teachers turn the questions back on them. Continue reading…
In this book for school leaders, Jackson presents a new model for understanding teaching as a combination of skill and will and explains the best ways to support individual teachers’ ongoing professional development. Continue reading…
NCTM President Linda Gojak makes her case for rethinking the roles of elementary teachers, including a call for math specialists, something our Primarily Math program aims to do. Continue reading…
Get a rich collection of daily warm-up exercises for grades K-3 -- the resource, "Number Sense Routines," helps all students build number sense. Continue reading…
Among the six countries singled out for their exceptional math scores in 1995 -- Singapore, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Belgium and the Czech Republic -- only Korea's fourth-graders posted growth in math scores at a greater percentage than U.S. fourth-graders. Continue reading…