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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math Education in 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 ...

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 ...

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