The National Science Foundation will provide funding for an NDSU project titled "Examining Coaching in Elementary (K-8) Mathematics Classrooms. Nathan Wood, assistant professor in the School of Education, is conducting the project with a group at Montana State University.

Researchers are conducting the project with the RMC Research Corp. and will study the knowledge that contributes to successful coaching in two domains: coaching knowledge and mathematics content knowledge.

NDSU is receiving funding as a subcontract from Montana State University to conduct the external evaluation of the project.