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In New York City, intertwining nature into the science classroom experience may be a bit difficult – though it’s certainly not impossible. In fact, New York City offers the unique opportunity to study

Eugenia Cheng, the author of How to Bake Pi, said in a colloquium she gave at MƒA this past fall that mathematics is best learned through understanding and play. 

In a guest blog post that appeared in Education Week Teacher, “Teachers are Not Losing at Everything,” MƒA President John Ewing and MƒA Executive Director Megan Roberts write about the current narrati

Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software, and a number of teachers have begun to incorporate them into their STEM curriculums. This past fall

In “Education – It’s Complicated,” which appeared today in the Huffington Post, MƒA President John Ewing does a deep dive into the similarities between politics and education reform.

As a guest columnist for EdTech Digest, MƒA Executive Director Megan Roberts looks at the influence technology has had on teacher professional development as an ongoing and active practice. In her pie

Last year, a colleague of mine rhetorically asked me, "Can you imagine what our classrooms would look like if, instead of an exam, teachers themselves determined what students needed to do to demonstr

A recent feature story about MƒA in Education Dive detailed our Master Teacher Fellowship and how its broad array of resources help retain NYC’s best teachers in math and science.

At the recent MƒA Fall Function, Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a speech to the MƒA community of almost 1,500 NYC mathematics and science educators. 

Chalkbeat NY recently visited the MƒA course, “A Continuing Conversation: Race, Equity, and STEM Education,” and