If you are an experienced, highly
skilled mathematics professional, we want to hear from you on topics that you
know best. Whether you’re a teacher or a teacher educator, you have a story to
tell and something to share. Administrators, math coaches, and researchers from
district and state levels, as well, have a place within the pages of the NCTM
journals and books.
The NCTM publishing program looks to
the mathematics education community for expertise, insights, and accurate
content. Our authors, who include some of the most respected professionals in
the field from the classroom, academia, coaching, and administration, develop
professional materials for our teacher, administrator, and counselor members.
Covering grades PK-12, NCTM publishes approximately six books over the course
of a year. NCTM also publishes three journals: Mathematics Teacher: Learning
and Teaching PK–12, the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education,
and Mathematics Teacher Educator.
BEFORE YOU GET STARTED
There are a few things you should know up front:
- All manuscripts must be anonymized.
- As the author, you are responsible for obtaining permissions for all
student work
and/or copyrighted material that you use in your manuscript.
- You must sign a copyright release to NCTM. You'll be asked to sign one in EJournal Press for journal manuscripts and as part of the contract-development process for books. Photographers and artists will be asked to sign a
release prior to publication.
- Read some of the books/journals that you want to write for so you can get to know your audience as well as the tone, and professionalism for each one.
What We DON'T Do in Books or Journals
- We don't accept manuscripts in LaTeX. All manuscripts must be done in Word, using MathType.
- We don't accept fiction.
- We don't publish curriculum/textbooks. Textbooks are defined as
- publications designed to follow a year-long or semester-long study,
- publications that could be used in place of a traditional basal text,
- publications that cover a large majority of the standards and/or topics of a particular grade or course, or
- publications that provide a comprehensive approach to curriculum, instruction, and assessment, including student problems and/or exercises intended or homework assignments.
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