Math Tutoring Resources If a student is struggling in math class, it's easy to fall behind quickly. Just the tiniest confusion regarding basic concepts can completely confuse and defeat a student. The best way to solve this problem is to offer the student a new way of learning the material....

Cartography is the art and science of mapmaking. The oldest known maps are from around 2300 BCE, preserved on ancient Babylonian clay tablets. While there are other representations of geographic areas that date back further, it isn’t known whether they are meant to be maps per se. What makes...

In the 2011 Presidential Budget, the US Department of Education is allocated 77.8 billion dollars. With the lasting impacts of educational materials and environments, knowing what areas within a topic to teach and how to teach the material has long-term consequences for the student both as a future learner and as a future...

This page provides links to classroom resources for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to adult learners.  The emphasis is on lesson plans for classroom or private instruction, but you will also find other information pertaining to EFL pedagogy and curriculum development.  The lessons were submitted by EFL...

Adult literacy is a problem faced by many Americans that has grave economic consequences for the adult and for their families. Improving literacy can increase earning power over a lifetime, which improves the quality of life. In turn, children of parents who read are more likely to read themselves....

Art is a very worthwhile subject, no matter what the age of the student. It encourages free thought, individualism, self-expression, and creativity. Art is a conduit to teaching many other subject areas, from history and international relations to science and engineering. Teaching art to young children is a very...

  When taught enthusiastically, chemistry is one of the most exciting classes that high school students get to take. It is one of the too-few disciplines where students get to perform their own hands-on experiments and draw conclusions from the changes they observe. This lends an aura of authenticity to...

The basic concept of gravity is beautifully simple: every single object in the universe possesses an attractive force proportional to its mass.  The laws of gravitation suggest that the universe is a web of everything being attracted to everything else.  But how does one convey the complex, periodically changing...