Mathematician and Co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's H-STAR Institute Dr. Keith Devlin spoke about math, the symbol barrier and the development of understanding math through ...

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Come and pull up a chair in Deborah Harper’s senior-level math class, there are plenty to go around because the students don’t use them. Class starts with each student randomly drawing a card which ...

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 ...

Math is viewed by parents as perhaps the most critical subject that children study and a key to their success, according to a newly released poll, as The 74 reported. But educators need to make their ...

Christopher Rakes receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Several state and national reform efforts have tried to improve things. The most recent Common Core standards had a great deal ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. » Hate math? Relax; it may not be about you. Fear of math represents not personal failure or a missing gene but wrongheaded "one-size-fits-all" ways of teaching. That, at least, is ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We are beginning to see whether these borrowed methods are working in the classroom. My new study, which looked ...

To help young kids who struggle with math, well-intentioned teachers often turn to non-traditional teaching methods. They use music and movement to involve the whole body. They use hands-on materials ...