Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

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While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

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Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...

SALUDA — South Carolina’s education leaders have a simple message for their state: “Every student is a math student.” They’re tired of the idea that some kids just aren’t good at math, or that it’s ...