A new guide from the Center on Reinventing Public Education’s explains the divisions shaping the “science of math” — as well ...

Educators seeking to improve their schools’ math offerings should look critically at state and other recommendations to ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, “because that is what they will remember.” It’s a sentence that has made me ...

In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by staring at a whiteboard and copying zeros. They go to a beach and count grains of sand. “Some of them start by ...

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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 ...

Kisen Yao, Shirley You and Eric Shin recently beat out thousands of other students to advance to the finals of an ...

Blending music with math lessons can turn abstract concepts into engaging, hands-on experiences that stick. From clapping rhythms to understand fractions to composing melodies based on patterns, ...

It is no secret that many students are not passionate about math. Students feel disconnected from what is taught in class, unsure of the benefits of math and reluctant to pursue careers in the field.

ANAHEIM – Nine year-old Nancy Ruiz sits down at a cafeteria table strewn with small circular plastic chips, and cautiously examines a sheet of paper with a diagram for the “chip number puzzle.” The ...