Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

This post is by Scott Swaaley (P.E., LEED AP), who teaches ninth grade physics and engineering at High Tech High in San Diego. As a scientist and engineer, I really like math. The fact that people ...

This summer, as Georgia rolls out new math requirements, Kaycie Maddox’s challenge has as much to do with words as numbers. Maddox, a math specialist for a regional education services agency, is ...

“Math might seem like it’s about getting the right answers, but really it’s about the process of discovering,” according to this invigorating philosophical take on the field. Mathematician Cheng (The ...

To many people, school mathematics is virtually a phenomenon of nature. It seems timeless, set in stone—ard to change and perhaps not needing to change. But the school mathematics education of ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

Multiple studies indicate that the timing of when preschoolers understand cardinality — that the last number word in counting represents the total — strongly predicts later math performance. Children ...

The narrative of Mathematics in Indian schools has long been one of apprehension and anxiety. This sentiment isn't merely subjective; it's quantifiable, as reflected in a 2021 survey revealing that 82 ...