The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

More than 70 students and faculty gathered on Monday evening for the kick-off event for Gender Inclusivity in Mathematics, a new organization devoted to discussing issues facing women and other ...

Corrected: This item misspelled the name of one of the cast members in the television series “NUMB3RS”. She is Navi Rawat. Teaching math to a diverse student body was the overarching theme of this ...

School and district leaders have a lot to think about as they plan for fall instruction, in the wake of a spring semester decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. Two professional math-education ...

Students, like Miriam Cooper, working a problem at the Smartboard, participate in math problems in Dana Snapp's class at Fuquay-Varina Elementary School. Students there have been using Common Core ...

The aim of the Northwestern Student Chapter of SIAM is to provide a platform for students involved in science to interact with one another. SIAM ESAM graduate students form the core of Northwestern's ...

Help D.C. with number sentences and ten frames, then learn about groups of up to 20. Join Mrs. Gray for a Mystery Math Mistake with D.C. He needs help figuring out his number sentences to match ten ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...