GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- Local educators and real-world math and science skills were celebrated Tuesday by the Northeast Wisconsin (NEW) Manufacturing Alliance. The organization hosted its 9th annual "Get ...

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 ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

In the past decade, the Seattle School Board chose “discovery math” books for the public schools. The chance to correct these mistaken decisions begins next year with new texts for grades K-5. Due for ...

ADVISED. THANKFULLY, NO ONE WAS HURT. WELL, HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. SOME STUDENTS IN PLACER COUNTY ARE GETTING AN EYE OPENING ANSWER TO A QUESTION. SOME OF US MAY HAVE EVEN ASKED WHEN WE WERE KIDS. THAT ...

One of the most common questions math teachers hear from their students is, “why does this matter?” They are constantly trying to convince students that math is useful and could help them in their ...

Re: “To make education equitable, policy won’t cut it. Educators need ‘courage to act,’ ” [July 20, Education]: I’m a retired mathematics teacher. I’m alarmed by proposals to address racial bias in ...

If you claim you’ve never wondered why math exists, you’re either lying or have not been truly bored yet. Gracie Cunningham, a teenager who took to TikTok to muse about how early mathematicians came ...

Andrew Hacker has a bombshell opinion piece in last Sunday’s NY Times, arguing that teaching algebra to all students is a wasted effort. Students are routinely told that math is a gateway subject—you ...

For UC Davis philosopher, Elaine Landry, thought experiments like ‘if a tree falls in the forest, will it make a noise?’ is one way to conceptualize how mathematicians and physicists think when they ...