Our projects and research shape the STEM education field by introducing innovative curricula and improving student access to STEM.
We support more than 60 active projects every year, and our high-quality, innovative research is based on the understanding that for STEM, real-world application matters. We inspire, motivate, and create life-long learners by helping students connect what they are taught in the classroom to the world around them.
These projects and our research are designed to encompass a wide range of subjects and disciplines within STEM education and teaching methods to expand accessibility for all eager minds.
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The Adult Numeracy Center at TERC helps adults and young adults understand how math is present and relevant in everyday life, and how they can use this knowledge to improve their lives and communities.
Are you looking for professional development (PD) opportunities to foster conceptual understanding, improve reasoning and justification skills, and share experiences with peers?
Together with Greensboro NC community partners, researchers from TERC and makers from the Forge, a Greensboro-based makerspace, develop ways for makerspaces to offer more opportunities to young women.
Latinx youth engage in design and making to address community needs as they develop positive identities as mathematics learners, doers and users.
The Building Coherence project aims to support development of pre-service elementary teachers’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions for enacting ambitious and equitable STEM instruction, by fostering greater coherence among STEM content and pedagogical teacher preparation opportunities.
The Center for Equitable Family STEM Learning at TERC explores the intersection of equity, STEM education, and family learning. Our definitions of each of these anchoring concepts continue to evolve through our collaborations with families and community partners.
A design-based research project studying how best to integrate data practices into high school science, particularly biology.
This study aims to develop and refine a new data collection methodology called Contemplative CRiT Collage (CCC). Its intention is to aid in the mending of graduate students of color with disabilities who encounter negative experiences in STEM
DSAIY is engaging, fun, timely, and attainable for ALL students, including those with no coding or statistics background.
Doing Math with Families is a mathematics professional development program that empowers families and caregivers to support children’s math learning through games, workshops, and community leadership while building pathways into education careers.