Short, practical videos designed to support teachers in improving how mathematics is taught in the classroom.
These resources provide concise guidance on key aspects of mathematics instruction. Each video focuses on a specific concept or teaching approach that can be applied directly in class.
The goal is simple: offer practical ideas that help make mathematics clearer, more engaging, and easier for students to understand.
Short videos for teacher professional development
Clear explanations of common math teaching challenges
Practical strategies for everyday classroom teaching
Simple methods to explain difficult math concepts
Effective approaches to support student participation
This video highlights a key problem in early math education: many students rely on counting instead of true calculation due to teaching methods that introduce abstract procedures too early. Using data from STEPS and other studies, it shows that learners struggle because they don’t understand numbers as combinations of smaller parts (like tens and units). The video emphasizes that building this conceptual understanding first enables students to calculate more efficiently and meaningfully, rather than following procedures without sense.
This series of videos provides short, practical guidance for teachers across different courses, focusing on how learners understand numbers and mathematical concepts. Through activities like number cards, they emphasize helping students see numbers as combinations of smaller parts rather than relying on counting, while also offering strategies to observe student thinking, encourage discussion, and build strong conceptual foundations that support meaningful calculation and understanding.