Math wars “The traditional method worked really well for me. It was easy to teach and easy to get a good result,” said Audrey Buffington, a resident of South Thomaston who taught public school math ...

Facts & Arguments is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. As a math teacher, there were many days I hated math more than my ...

Mathematics education must move beyond marks and memorisation, focusing instead on reasoning, problem-solving, and creative ...

Course descriptions show some schools put math in a religious framework. Sept. 2, 2007 — -- School begins again, and we read more about the intrusion of pseudoscience into school science ...

Experts are questioning the relevance of pushing all college-bound students to take calculus, arguing that the “narrow pathway toward calculus … fails to serve most students.” Credit: Erika Rich for ...

As if California schools were not facing enough political battles, now even math instruction has become part of the raging ideological debate. A proposal to change the math framework for the state’s 6 ...

Originally published on Sept. 25, 2018. In a world of divisive politics, rhetoric and debate, author Eugenia Cheng has the secret to winning an argument: mathematical logic. Cheng, a mathematician and ...

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. Research analyzed 49 studies with 37,654 participants and ...