The Mathematics Education Trust (MET) is excited to announce it has selected Matt Larson to receive the 2025 NCTM Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors NCTM members who have exhibited a ...

Whatever your passion is, make time to incorporate relaxation into your summer plans. In this month’s President’s Message, I want to share a few ideas for summer math plans.  As a teacher, I often ...

As president and past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), we are committed to a position of social justice that challenges the roles of power, privilege, and ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has issued two extensive publications - one for elementary educators and the other for middle school educators - on how to help all students view ...

Back in 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, NCTM-through funding from the National Science Foundation-released the "Mathematics Education in the United States: A Capsule Summary Fact Book," ...

During the NCTM Capitol Hill Day visit last week, legislators asked if we could share stories of how recent changes are impacting education. Has anything changed since the start of the year? Are ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...