How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...
Hannah Moulton teaches Algebra 1. But before her 9th graders get started on graphing linear functions or solving quadratic equations, she makes sure that they have a much more basic skill down pat.
The typical college student might balk at the idea of frequent quizzes that count toward his grade. But talk to students in the math professor M. Vali Siadat’s classes, and you’re likely to hear ...
What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question. Mathematics started with numbers — clear, ...
High school math should be more practical, more engaging, and without tracking systems that place some students — often low-income, African-American or Latino — in less challenging classes that leave ...
Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House Correspondent for "The Daily Signal." Send her an email. The world’s largest math education organization is injecting identity politics where it doesn’t ...
The study examined effects of homogeneous and heterogeneous achievement grouping on mathematics learning through concept and skill games. Subjects were 164 seventh graders; half played probability ...
By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...
Navajo women instill the love for patterns and math into children at an early age. From intricate numerical systems to astronomical observatories, from suspension bridges to geometrical ornaments and ...