NCTM established the Mathematics Education Trust (MET) in 1976 to channel the generosity of donors by creating grants for preservice teachers, in-service teachers, coaches, teacher-leaders, teacher ...

Thinking about numbers using frames of 5 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills. (This applet ...

Classroom Resources / Illuminations Shape Sorter Grade: 6th to 8th A rhombus has four congruent sides. A rectangle has four congruent angles. But a square has four congruent sides and four congruent ...

Use " Notice and Wonder " prompts to engage students in active observation and inquiry. This technique encourages students to observe mathematical patterns, make connections, and generate questions ...

Departments consist of short, focused articles along a particular theme or in a specific format. Writing for a department is a great way for teachers to see their names is print! Short articles (700 – ...

Each calendar needs a variety of problems to appeal to a wide range of students in grades 8-12. Topics from arithmetic, algebra, geometry, number theory, statistics, discrete mathematics, probability ...

Department Descriptions from Teaching Children Mathematics News & Views Share news about happenings in the field of elementary school mathematics education, views on matters pertaining to teaching and ...

The purpose of this book study guide is to provide stakeholder groups with a tool to initiate needed critical conversations and actions in early childhood and elementary mathematics. Format: The book ...

NCTM is here to support the mathematics education community, not just during challenging times like these but 365 days a year. With so many teachers currently transitioning to online teaching, we ...

People of all ages love to play games that are fun and motivating. Games give students opportunities to explore fundamental number concepts, such as the counting sequence, one-to-one correspondence, ...

I love the story of Carl Friedrich Gauss—who, as an elementary student in the late 1700s, amazed his teacher with how quickly he found the sum of the integers from 1 to 100 to be 5,050. Gauss ...

In the August 2014 issue of Teaching Children Mathematics, authors Karen S. Karp, Sarah B. Bush, and Barbara J. Dougherty initiated an important conversation in the elementary mathematics education ...