“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, “because that is what they will remember.” It’s a sentence that has made me ...

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More than half of U.S. states now recognize that their traditional approaches, including math tracking, often advantage an elite few while overlooking the needs of the broader student population.

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...