While it is important to plan and invest the time at the beginning of the school year or semester engaging in tasks that allow us to get to know our students as mathematics learners, it’s equally ...

In classrooms across the country and world, teachers yearn for opportunities to come together and share ideas, stories, challenges, and practices, envisioning a world where all students can thrive.

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 ...

NCTM is the world's leading mathematics education organization and advocates for high-quality mathematics teaching and learning for each and every student. Success on this count requires support from ...

When students become active doers of mathematics, the greatest gains of their mathematical thinking can be realized. The process of sense making begins when we create classrooms full of curious ...

Our students need mathematics to make sense of their world and increase their opportunities. As teachers, administrators, and education leaders, each and every student is counting on us, our policies, ...

Research Clips and Briefs provide a foundation for taking what the research says about mathematics teaching and learning to teachers, administrators, school boards and parents. Email [email protected] ...

Considered the “premier mathematics education event of the year,” NCTM Annual Meetings bring together thousands of mathematics educators from all over the world to collaborate, network, learn, inspire ...

A comprehensive and coherent set of mathematics standards for each and every student from prekindergarten through grade 12, Principles and Standards is the first set of rigorous, college and career ...

Use this interactive tool to create dynamic drawings on isometric dot paper. Draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. You can shift, rotate, color, decompose, and view in 2‑D or 3‑D. Start by ...

Build up to algebraic thinking by exploring this balance tool using shapes of unknown weight. Challenge yourself to find the weight of each shape in one of six built-in sets or a random set. Two other ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is the public voice of mathematics education, and a professional membership association supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of ...