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, ...

Reston, VA - September 10, 2025 - The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) today responded to the newly released NAEP Grade 12 mathematics results with an urgent call for systemic action ...

As representatives of the K-12 teachers and leaders in the core subject areas, we are alarmed by the decision to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding that Congress approved for our nation's ...

Back in 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, NCTM-through funding from the National Science Foundation-released the "Mathematics Education in the United States: A Capsule Summary Fact Book," ...

As representatives of teachers of the core K-12 subject areas, we firmly believe that a robust, nonpartisan system of local, state, and federal agencies is essential to ensuring that every student has ...

Data can be numbers, counts, and measurements but also images, video, sounds, or words. Students need to grapple with the fast-changing nature of data, yet a gap exists between the concepts taught in ...

Data science captures the complexity of data and data methods that have arisen with advances in technology. It is a collaborative science that uses complex data and methodology to identify and explain ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has announced that Ilana Horn, PhD, will be the next editor-in-chief of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (JRME). Horn's ...

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 ...

Advocating for high-quality mathematics teaching and learning for each and every student must be more than words. To be effective, advocacy must include thoughtful actions both individually and ...

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 ...

Sue O’Connell has years of experience as an elementary classroom teacher, math coach, district school improvement specialist, and math speaker/consultant. She is the author of numerous books that ...