Over a decade ago, I learned about a pioneering course at Cabrillo College in California. In it, students collected survey data in their neighborhoods on issues such as youth gangs or discrimination ...

Middle and high school teachers can explore art, sports, recipes, shopping, and financial topics to show students that math ...

There has been a lot of hand-wringing over the past few decades about STEM education and the need to ensure that students leave school with solid math ability. A good understanding of math is a ...

What is it about math that is different than other subjects? It’s often rote-memory heavy, rule- or procedure-based, and only some people are good at it. What if we could teach differently than you ...

This past school year, Cambridge, Massachusetts, placed every eighth grader in Algebra I. It didn't go well. Ultimately, more than 60% of rising ninth graders will repeat the course. The consequences ...

The disruptions to children’s schooling over the past two years have caused millions of American parents to come to an unexpected revelation: They are not as good at math as they had hoped. Nothing ...

It’s not as hard as you think to find math in unexpected places—real-world math surrounds and influences us each day “One of the challenges of teaching math, particularly in the United States, is that ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Is Math Real? by Eugenia Cheng. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email ...

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