"We're just not getting students into the pipeline," says Naomi Fisher, codirector of Mathematicians and Education Reform (MER), a four-year-old center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which ...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Colorado Mesa University held a screening of the documentary “Counted Out” on April 21. The film goes into the unseen ways math affects everyday lives of people around ...
Policies placing first-year college students assessed as needing remedial math directly into college-level quantitative courses, with additional support, can increase student success, according to a ...
Mathematical thinking is playing an increasingly dominant role in experimental design, data analysis, and the conceptual understanding of Life. Through reading a diversity of papers at the interface ...
OPINION: Every child deserves the chance to build confidence with numbers before they start believing they're "not a math ...
In 1939, the fictional professor J. Abner Pediwell published a curious book called “The Saber-Tooth Curriculum.” Through a series of satirical lectures, Pediwell (or the actual author, education ...
Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...
What Can Stand in the Way of a Student's Mathematical Development? Math disabilities can arise at nearly any stage of a child's scholastic development. While very little is known about the ...