If we are to save higher education in the U.S., we will need a radical reboot. We need a national education compact to change admissions and grading in our schools.
As we near the end of the year, high school students (and their parents) will be debating whether to continue with Pure Maths, or make the change to Maths Literacy.imageWhile Pure Maths will pave the ...
America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...
Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was ...
Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...
Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).
A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...
Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...
Georgetown University psychologist Shadab Tabatabaeian, the paper’s lead author, imagines a “cool application” of their ...