The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

The Humboldt County Office of Education (HCOE) is working hard to support students, teachers, and families when it comes to learning math. In 2022, Humboldt County joined the Rural Math Collaborative ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...

Over the last 24 hours, some of us Short Wavers celebrated Pi Day the only way we know how: eating some yummy pie and thinking math thoughts. Here on the show, many of us are math enthusiasts. But ...

Travis Meier’s opinion piece, published in The Gazette on Feb. 12, “The trouble with school is too much math,” demands a response. His reference to the 1983 Reagan administration report, “A Nation at ...

The awards ceremony for the ‘First Half 2018 National Elementary School Math · Science Creative Thinking Competition,’ hosted by the Institute of Basic Science Education at Seoul National University ...

In polls of teachers, parents, and employers, creativity regularly tops the lists of the most valued skills for students to develop . The largest international assessment of creativity to date shows ...