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Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — Ella Hereth, a geometry teacher at IPS' Harshman Middle School, learned this month that she won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

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