Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...
A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...
The return of school has us focused on education, and with that in mind we believe it’s worth weighing in on two major changes in the way the state of Illinois measures proficiency in reading, math ...
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Bailey Heugly, right, records the length a ruler dropped to recreate an experiment on reaction time (how long it takes to respond to a stimulus) during a data science class at Lehi High School in ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Image made with elements from Canva. It’s March 14, or Pi Day, that day of the year where we celebrate the ratio that makes a circle a circle. The Greek letter that represents it is such a part of our ...
Diyan T’ Sharma is still a year or two away from his first day of kindergarten. But the 4-year-old Murray boy is already discovering the wonders of reading and math. “If we’re out traveling and Diyan ...
Math teacher Ben Orlin writes and draws the (aptly named) blog Math With Drawings and is the author of a new book, Math for English Majors: A Human Take on the Universal Language. To mark its ...
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories featuring master’s degree programs at the University of Chicago. After earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics then working in ...
For this Computer Science student, IIT has taught her how to trust people, but not unquestioningly, and how to accept uncertainty as a part of life.
Today’s post continues a series highlighting ways teachers can help students see how math and science are relevant to their lives. Emily Burrell has taught high school mathematics for 23 years. For ...