If you're not a numbers person, sometimes even if you are, high school math, can be mind-numbing. "These are all quadratic equations and quadratic equations, they don't really make sense to anyone," ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

When about 400 students at Alief Hastings High School failed or became "repeaters" in algebra classes last year, it was a problem. Now, Tremain Nelson, a former NASA electrical engineer, is providing ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Instructor II Kim Walters is using her Math in Your World class to teach students that math is more than problems in a textbook––it’s a practical tool with everyday ...

Mathematics once felt like a subject confined to classrooms, dusty chalkboards, or the pages of old textbooks. Yet today, it ...

Excerpted from Math Therapy™: 5 Steps to Help Your Students Overcome Math Trauma and Build a Better Relationship With Math by Vanessa Vakharia. Copyright © 2024 by ...

Nine in ten educators believe that using a problem-solving approach to teaching math and science can be motivating for students, according to an EdWeek Research Center survey. But that doesn’t mean it ...

ChatGPT, Photomath, Symbolab, and other artificial intelligence-powered platforms can solve a complicated math equation in just seconds—and provide a step-by-step explanation of the answer. That power ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...