As part of its commitment to building and supporting a diverse mathematics teaching field, NCTM is pleased to announce the selection of the 2026-2027 Early Career Teachers Cohort. Over the next two ...

Use tiles to represent variables and constants, learn how to represent and solve algebra problem. Solve equations, substitute in variable expressions, and expand and factor. Flip tiles, remove zero ...

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 ...

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

Founded in 1920, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is the world's largest mathematics education organization throughout the United States and Canada.

Join NCTM as we celebrate our Centennial with 100 Days of Professional Learning - live, free webinars presented by selected speakers from the NCTM Centennial Annual Meeting program that was to be held ...

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 ...

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, ...

I hope that by this time, everyone has seen Robert Kaplinsky’s amazing NCTM ShadowCon presentation from the Annual Conference in San Francisco this year. If you ...

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 ...

Numerous myths surround the use of calculators in the elementary school mathematics classroom. These myths emerge from numerous individuals; for example, from parents one might hear, “I learned math ...