Now, I’m no MIT math major. But I’m bright enough to know I was staring straight at a baseball diamond. Such a slip would ...

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

Many students struggle to learn mathematics as educators emphasize numeracy in daily life. Many Wisconsin students struggle to learn mathematics, as educators emphasize the importance of numeracy in ...

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

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Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...

The life of longtime instructor Tom Lehrer was marked by the conventions and constructs he defied: from the grand political and social trends of his day that he bucked with sardonic lyrics and playful ...