Articles and Research on Best Practices

Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics
From the International Academy of Education (IAE). This booklet is the fourth in a series on educational practices that generally improve learning. This particular 48 page booklet, focusing on the teaching of mathematics, discusses 10 different "best practices" in the teaching of mathematics.

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Scaling Up Innovative Practices in Mathematics and Science
"For eight years, researchers at the National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science worked with teachers and schools to create and study classrooms in which compelling new visions of mathematics and science are becoming the norm. In order to support teacher change and enable these visions to “travel” to other classrooms, Center researchers sought to understand how these classrooms function, what it takes to construct them, and how this knowledge can be used to create similar classrooms in new settings." 19 pages

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Improving Mathematics Education: Resources for Decision Making
Summarizes the major recommendations in eight documents related to mathematics education and provides an analysis of overlapping recommendations. From the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Decisions That Count: Steve Leinwand and Gail Burrill, editors. 60 pages

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