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

• 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

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