MathTeacherEDU.org exists to give future and current math teachers an honest, detailed picture of the path into teaching math: what each state requires, which exams you need to pass, how the certification routes work and what the job pays. Decisions about certification and school cost real money and years of your life, so we hold our content to a high standard. This page explains who writes it, how we use AI, where our facts come from, and how we check them.
Who Writes Our Content
Our articles are produced by our editorial staff, a small team of editors and researchers who cover math teacher certification and careers. We use AI tools when drafting and updating articles (see How We Use AI below). Every article, including every update, is reviewed by a person on our editorial team before it’s published. You can read more about our site.
Why Our Bylines Say “MathTeacherEDU Editorial Staff”
Our pages are researched, updated and reviewed as a team, and many updates are AI-assisted, so we credit that work to our editorial staff rather than to a single name. The standards on this page apply to every article on the site, whoever worked on it.
Where Our Facts Come From
We rely on primary sources wherever we can:
- Certification: each state’s department of education or educator standards board, and the state’s administrative rules for educator certification.
- Exams: the official testing programs, including ETS for the Praxis tests and Pearson for the National Evaluation Series and state exams such as Texas’s TExES and California’s CSET.
- Program approval and accreditation: each state’s list of approved educator preparation programs, and the national accreditors CAEP and AAQEP.
- Salary and job outlook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. BLS has no separate category for math teachers, so for K-12 roles we use Middle School Teachers (SOC 25-2022) and Secondary School Teachers (SOC 25-2031). Salary and growth figures on our pages state the period they cover.
How We Fact-Check
Before an article goes live, a human reviewer checks it against the sources above. That includes every statistic, every certification requirement, every exam detail, passing score and fee, and every date. When a reviewer finds an error, it gets fixed before publication. If they can’t verify a claim, it comes out. Fact-checking is done by people on our editorial team, never by an AI tool, and each article names the person who fact-checked it.
We also try to be honest about what the data doesn’t say. If BLS projections show slower growth than average, we won’t call it a fast-growing field. If wages dipped, we won’t suggest they’re rising.
How We Use AI
We want to be upfront about this. We use AI tools to help draft and update articles. Certification rules, exam details and salary data change often, and keeping every page current is a big job.
Here’s what that looks like in practice. AI helps us draft new articles, restructure older ones, apply our style and formatting standards, and work new data into a page. It may search the web to find the primary sources listed above, but a requirement, score, fee or salary figure only goes on the page when it comes from one of those sources, never from memory or from a secondary summary.
AI doesn’t have the final say on anything. Every AI-assisted article and update is reviewed and fact-checked by a person before it’s published. We never list an AI tool as an author.
Advertising and Independence
Some schools pay to appear in featured or sponsored placements on our site, and those placements are labeled. Some links to schools are tracked, and we may earn a fee when a reader requests information. That never affects which programs we include or what we say about them. A school can’t pay to be included in an article, to be ranked higher, or to change what we say about it.
Updates and Corrections
We review and update our articles regularly, especially pages on requirements that change. Pages we’ve refreshed show the date they were last updated, and we’re adding that date to older pages as we update them.
We make mistakes sometimes. When we find one, or a reader points one out, we correct it promptly. If you spot something wrong, please email us at [email protected] and tell us the page and what needs fixing.
A Note on Using This Site
Our content is educational. It isn’t legal or financial advice, and it doesn’t replace official guidance. Requirements and costs change, so always confirm the current rules with your state’s department of education and the official testing program, and check costs with the school before you enroll.