In the Fall I'll be starting teaching again, after a semester away on sabbatical and then enjoying teaching relief during my first semester at Penn. I'll be teaching a course that I truly love, and ...

Our hydra is a rooted tree. The root (black, at the bottom) is the body, and the leaves (blue) are its heads. Just like Hercules, you are going to cut off its heads, one at a time. But, just like with ...

When studying to become a math teacher, many teachers-in-training are taught to use concrete, real world examples to help illustrate mathematical concepts. New research, published in last week's ...

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using "real-world," concrete examples. Researchers found that college students who learned a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mathematician is blowing plenty of minds on TikTok, thanks to her example of just how confusing high-level math is. But in a ...

After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...