October 2025 - We're launching a short, quarterly Advocacy Newsletter to keep you informed about how NCTM is working to advance policies at the federal level that support mathematics teachers, ...

With only 22% of seniors at or above NAEP Proficient and 45% below Basic, the nation must pivot from a singular focus on the top quartile to engaging all students in meaningful, real-world mathematics ...

The Designing Innovative Lessons and Activities for Mathematics Teaching Grant is sponsored by the Mary P. Dolciani Halloran Foundation. This grant supports the research-and-writing of mathematics ...

Join the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for the 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta this fall, October 15–18. This year’s meeting will honor the historical and contemporary contributions of ...

Log in and then download this digital certificate of participation and self-document your participating hours. Your school or district determines the acceptance of ...

The purpose of this book study guide is to provide stakeholder groups with a tool to initiate needed critical conversations and actions in early childhood and elementary mathematics. Format: The book ...

I love the story of Carl Friedrich Gauss—who, as an elementary student in the late 1700s, amazed his teacher with how quickly he found the sum of the integers from 1 to 100 to be 5,050. Gauss ...

Join NCTM as we celebrate our Centennial with 100 Days of Professional Learning - live, free webinars presented by selected speakers from the NCTM Centennial Annual Meeting program that was to be held ...

People of all ages love to play games that are fun and motivating. Games give students opportunities to explore fundamental number concepts, such as the counting sequence, one-to-one correspondence, ...

I hope that by this time, everyone has seen Robert Kaplinsky’s amazing NCTM ShadowCon presentation from the Annual Conference in San Francisco this year. If you ...

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics scores for grades 4 and 8 underscore persistent challenges in mathematics education and highlight the urgency of improving ...

Reston, Va. - October 24, 2022 - Lower mathematics scores for grades 4 and 8 in the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are cause for systemic change in how we engage students in ...