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Learn about effective math teaching in just five weeks.
In this free five-week email course, you’ll learn research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math.

You will receive an email each Tuesday, for the next five weeks. Sign up below ↓ or keep scrolling for more information.
  • What is a Mini-Course?

    The Education Week Mini-Course is an email-based course carefully constructed by EdWeek experts to teach you what you need to know about critical education issues in bite-sized chunks. You won’t need to go to class or complete assignments, but you will come out of the course with the confidence to develop your own action plan. Here's a few things to know:

    • After signing up, you will get an email with more information
    • Once the mini-course begins, you’ll receive emails every week, but feel free to take it at your own pace
    • A pre- and post-quiz will reinforce your learning
    • You can make this a professional learning team activity by telling your colleagues to sign up
    • You will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course for 3 hours of professional learning

    What can you expect from this course?

    • Concise, straightforward explanations from EdWeek journalists on the best practices for teaching math across grade levels
    • Lessons from leading-edge research on how to help students make sense of tricky math concepts and feel more confident in the subject
    • Informative videos with tips and strategies to boost student learning
    • Advice from experts in the field on how to address common math challenges
    • Deeper, more nuanced understanding of how to teach math so that students learn

    What topics will be covered?

    Each week, you will be immersed in a different aspects of teaching math:

    Week 1 | Introduction to Math Best Practices
    Week 2 | Math Progression
    Week 3 | Fractions
    Week 4 | Word Problems
    Week 5 | Tackling Math Anxiety

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