Late last month, over 400 high school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day conference, titled “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education and Social ...

THERE’S a fifth column in New York City’s public schools – radical teachers who openly undermine Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s curriculum mandates and use their classrooms to indoctrinate students ...

MORE than 400 New York City high-school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn late last month for a three-day conference on “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education ...

From incorporating rap into lessons to using the “Hejný method,” educators are increasingly looking for creative ways to make math more interesting to students and more applicable to “real-world” ...

Energy is the single most important aspect of modern civilization. It is needed to grow food, build shelter, deliver modern levels of comfort, health, activity and commerce; it is probably even needed ...

Core-Plus, used in Bethlehem’s high schools, and Connected Math, used in middle schools, don’t rely on the formulas and rote computation of traditional math courses. Students work in small groups, ...

A quiet revolution is brewing at the University of Chicago. There, a team of seven educators is hoping to overhaul the way math is taught in the United States.The U. of C. School Mathematics Project, ...