We teach obsolete rote math that adults don’t use, while missing entirely the math that defines our lives.   Let’s start with ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

When students look for keywords, they may fail to read the whole problem. Teachers can use these three strategies to help ...

Math-M-Addicts students eagerly dive into complex math problems during class. In the building of the Speyer Legacy School in New York City, a revolutionary math program is quietly producing some of ...

While this three-step process is the ideal process of applied math, reality is more complicated. Once I reach the second step where I want the solution of the math problem, very often, if not most of ...

Math teacher Al Rabanera has a new tool in his decades-long quest to ensure his students, most of whom come from low-income families and marginalized backgrounds, see themselves in the curriculum.

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...