Debates Over Math Teaching Are Heating Up. They Could Affect Classrooms

By Sarah Schwartz, Education Week (from January 22, 2026)

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning.

A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an “impoverished” approach to math teaching that would strip students of their autonomy and relegate them to “mimicking their teacher.” Proponents of the movement were misapplying educational research, they said.
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