The Hechinger Report

Teachers conquering their math anxiety

Teachers draw maps to visualize directions described in a picture book. Spatial awareness is a key early math concept. Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...
Education Week

In Math, Teachers’ Unconscious Biases May Be More Subtle Than You Think

Racial and gender stereotypes may color teachers’ perceptions of students’ math abilities, even when they rate students’ performance equally. A new study in the journal Educational Researcher, led by ...
Science Daily

Think you're good at math? Study shows it may be because you had equitable math teachers

A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they see their math teacher treating everyone in the class equitably, especially in racially diverse schools. While the ...
The Conversation

Math teachers hold a bias against girls when the teachers think gender equality has been achieved

Joseph Cimpian receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Ian Thacker and Yasemin Copur-Gencturk do not work for, ...