To learn the geometric concept of transformations this year, Crystal Watson’s eighth-graders drew up blueprints of apartments. As they worked, she asked them to imagine designing affordable housing ...

Dr. Eugenia Cheng is on a mission: To grab people and shake all the negative feelings they have about math right out of them! We’re speaking metaphorically, of course. But Cheng is doing for ...

Introducing new math concepts via already-worked examples can give students a significant boost in learning. But choosing the right problems makes a big difference. An analysis earlier this year of ...

Mathematics is one of humanity's most creative and poetic endeavors. And it is a disaster that it isn't taught this way to students. "A Mathematician's Lament" is a classic polemic (later expanded and ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Alon Amit, Ph.D. in mathematics, math circler: This is (obviously, I hope) a complex and controversial question. It is also geographically diverse ...

I love math. I understand some people probably shuddered just reading that; but I’ve always loved math. Like anyone, I go through droughts where I don’t even want to look at numbers; but somehow I ...

EVERETT — Math is where many college students stumble on their way to a degree. An instructor and researcher with Everett Community College says the type of math taught in basic courses may be part of ...

School s across the country have made considerable efforts to incorporate aspects of critical race theory into math curricula, often by modifying achievement standards and student expectations. Once ...

Theoretical math tends to be so complicated that even the researchers pushing the field forward can’t quite grasp it all. It turns out that a great deal of mathematicians simply trust that the ...

In How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg celebrates the virtues of mathematics, especially when they're taught well. He writes ...

You can probably distill high school down into a few singularly agonizing days, but none shook you to the core quite like that one Saturday morning in junior year when you took the SATs. If you’re ...