Get Education Insider™ Signup for free to get weekly news, trends and compelling interviews on STEM education. SUBSCRIBE RECENT POSTS 25 STEM Education Apps You Need in 2015 As the new year approaches, the thought on everyone's mind is how to make 2015 even more interactive, educational, and engaging for STEM students than the past year. Indeed, it has become a national priority to develop new ways to entice students to STEM careers and offer engaging ways to teach STEM that dismantles old and less-effective learning methods. What Does Math Look Like in Today's Classroom? For Many Teachers It's "All About Alice" To say that math education is in a state of flux and massive change is an understatement. As politicians, parents, teachers and even celebrities draw their battle lines in the testing and Common Core war, there is an ever-increasing need to not only define the future of math ed, but to genuinely understand what is actually happening inside the math classroom during this turbulent transition. 7 Red-Hot Project-Based Learning Trends to Ignite Your STEM Classroom in 2015 more than 5,000 schools have adopted PBL as a major component of their STEM curriculum. This much is clear, PBL in STEM is on Project-based learning (PBL) is one of the hottest topics in education, from language to library science. Yet, no area of education is more excited about PBL than science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers.