Teaching Mathematics Requires Special Set of Skills

Researchers Are Looking for New and Better Ways of Mastering Concepts

By Debra Viadero

As a young teacher in an East Lansing, Mich., elementary school, Deborah Loewenberg Ball realized teaching mathematics required a special kind of knowledge. Unfortunately, she didn’t have it.

Take long division, for example.

“There was no way of explaining to students what the procedure means, and what they’re really doing,” said Ms. Ball, now an education professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “Kids forget that...

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