Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding ...

Coaching is crucial for math because the focus on conceptual understanding is different from how many elementary school teachers learned math and how to teach it, Painter says. It helps them to ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a ... grounding facts in conceptual understanding, using brief ...

Many classroom environments present math with a greater emphasis on problems that need to be solved than on building conceptual understanding. In my own classroom I initially leaned more toward the ...

There has been a lot of discussion about the “new math” in schools, which focuses on conceptual understanding and problem solving versus rote memorization. Does the department encourage ...

In Bailey's classroom, students work on a whiteboard desk — learning the conceptual building ... also works on relating math to middle school kids in a way they'll understand.

The Simple Path of Loving Math," a book that dives into how we can all develop a deeper appreciation and understanding of math Across the nation, kids are heading back to school. It’s an ...