American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

There’s a line from the original Star Trek where Khan says, “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold.” Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...

Across the nation, kids are heading back to school. It’s an exciting time. I remember both the joy and the nervousness that came with my now twin 13-year-olds' first starting school. In fact, one day ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

Twitter users can't figure out a first grader's math homework. Cutting-edge pedagogy seeks to draw out children's different ideas (literally!) to explore how they're thinking. Expanding critical ...

Our civilization is centered around mathematics, which has a past that is frequently mixed up with philosophical history. Mathematics is used extensively in a variety of daily tasks like driving, ...