Questions & Answers

Enjoy—and learn from—this lively question-and-answer exchange about mathematics education.

Administrators’ Q&As

Classroom Q&As

  • Ability Grouping
  • Addressing English Language Development in Math Instruction
  • Assessment
  • Assess Students
  • Basics and Arithmetic
  • Calling on Students
  • Changing Instruction
  • Classroom Grouping
  • Commutative Property of Multiplication
  • Creating a Problem-Solving Environment in Your Classroom
  • Estimating
  • Fractions and Decimals Connect
  • Getting All Students to Talk
  • Grading
  • Growing Patterns
  • Justify Solutions
  • “Language” of Math
  • Lesson on Divisibility
  • Long Division
  • Math Ability Grouping
  • Math Center
  • Math Vocabulary Posters
  • Math Vocabulary Words
  • Money Problems
  • Multidigit Multiplication
  • Multiple Representatives
  • Order of Operations
  • Patterns Relate to Algebraic Concepts
  • Planning for End-of-Unit Assessments
  • Reading Difficulties and Word Problems
  • Repeating Patterns
  • Represent Thinking
  • Scheduling Math Instruction
  • Show Their Thinking
  • Students at Different Levels
  • Teaching Addition
  • Teaching Multiplication Facts with the Pathways Game
  • Teaching Long Division
  • Teaching Time to Second Graders
  • Test Prep
  • Using the Textbook
  • What Parents Need to Know About Math Education
  • Word Problems
  • Words of Wisdom
  • Working in Groups