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TERC Experts Publish Groundbreaking Resource on Teaching Early Algebra to Improve Students’ Ability in Mathematics
New book by Maria Blanton, Angela Murphy Gardiner offers insight, practical guidance to help teachers empower young learners to think algebraically, leading to later mathematical prowess
New TERC Tech Talks Video Podcast Evaluates AI Tools for Educators
TERC has launched TERC Tech Talks, a new video podcast series designed to help educators, parents, and practitioners navigate the rapidly evolving world of AI tools and emerging learning technologies.
Hands On! Spring 2025 Magazine
Articles include:
- Sound Travels: Seeking to understand how soundscapes in learning settings influence their visitors’ learning
- Introduction: Making and STEM Learning in Formal and Informal Settings
- Discovering STEM, entrepreneurship, and careers through making
- Math and Making for Middle School Youth
New Publication Shows What’s Possible When All Students Are Seen as Mathematicians
A new book by Susan Jo Russell and Deborah Schifter offers a powerful vision for K–5 math classrooms where all students thrive. Learn how equitable participation and deep math learning go hand in hand.
Project LEAP’s Maria Blanton and Angela Gardiner featured in EdWeek
Can Kindergarten Math Lay the Foundation for Algebra? New Study Aims to Find Out
Teaching algebraic thinking skills early—like generalizing, representing, and reasoning—can set students up for success, researchers say.
News & Events
TERC Researchers Publish New Study on Mathematics Coaching and Classroom Argumentation
September 30, 2026
TERC researchers Anushree Bopardikar and Christina B. Silva have co-authored a new article in the Fall 2026 issue of the NCSM Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership. The study explores how structured professional development protocols and video-analysis tools support math coaches in guiding teachers to foster mathematical argumentation. Ultimately, the research offers critical recommendations for designing flexible coaching routines that ensure every student can actively participate in rich mathematical discourse.
TERC Researchers Explore How Youth Learn Through Making
September 25, 2026
Teresa Lara-Meloy, and Ken Rafanan, with Elise Levin-Güracar of UC Berkeley, examine what minoritized youth learn through making in community-based makerspaces and afterschool programs. Their new paper,  Life Is Your Block of Clay.” Applying a Typology for Learning in Makerspaces, explores how a framework for identifying learning can help make that often-implicit learning more visible.
Using a Translanguaging Lens to Analyze Students’ Meaning-Making in Mathematics
September 25, 2026
A new article co-authored by TERC’s Andee Rubin explores how a translanguaging lens can reveal the complex ways emergent bilingual students make meaning in mathematics. The research shows how students blend language, gestures, interactions, and technology as they work together to engage in mathematical modeling.
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