A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.
Cassidy has asked 35 institutions about incoming students' math abilities, citing a "crisis" in K-12 math education.
When students begin to see themselves as math thinkers, they engage actively, explore creatively, and feel more motivated.
Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...
For generations, math has been taught according to the same, basic class structure—teachers lecture their students on concepts, and then ask them to work individually on math problems in their ...
Associate Professor of Mathematics Katy Ott was the first teacher to introduce Nerea Barranco Aramburu ’25 to the experience of learning through small group collaboration. Ott also introduced Arumbu ...
A lot of struggling math students have found comfort in the mathematical stylings of Salman Khan. A few years back, Khan started creating videos to help tutor his cousin in math. Those videos became ...
Inside her fifth-grade classroom at Brandon Elementary School, teacher Jill Carlson sees her students slumped in their chairs ...
In teacher Jeremy Gwyn's geometry class at Hempfield High School, students are learning mathematics in a way their parents did not. These students use laptop computers and graphing calculators. Their ...
Pi is undoubtedly the world's most popular irrational number. And that's because it's unequivocally cool — I mean, what other mathematical constant has its own day? On its face, pi is a simple concept ...
Philadelphia students are performing the best they have in math in years, showing steady improvement since the pandemic.