If you look past numbers and computations and distill math to its essence, it's all about creativity, 17-year-old James Tao says. “When I think of math, when I think of coming up with a proof where ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HIGH POINT, N.C. — Dr. Shirley Disseler is ...

Louis Benezet carried out audacious research. He asked the principals of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire to drop math from the early grades. No teaching of arithmetic. No adding, subtracting, ...

There is a way to put right the crimes and misdemeanors of math education, a way to help children learn and enjoy math. Math is a subject in crisis. In middle school, two-thirds of students fall ...

COMPTON (KABC) -- Let's face it -- Math itself isn't exciting to most students in middle school. But in Compton, one teacher is thinking outside the box, using a coding class to change her students' ...

Would you rather read a book about mythical sea creatures or do a sheet of multiplication problems? Given the choice between listening to a hilarious Read Aloud featuring Elephant and Piggie or ...

This niche analysis from Boaler (Limitless Minds), an education professor at Stanford University, explores strategies for improving how students learn math. Rather than insisting students learn rigid ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The math behind video games, skate parks and roller coasters are just some of the topics in a new hands-on exhibit at the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM). Design Zone was made ...

Precision and creativity. At first thought, one might consider these words to be incompatible. However, many things we enjoy allow space for both. Baking requires a recipe and measurements, but there ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 84, No. 2, Special Issue: Alternative perspectives on learning mathematics in the early years (October 2013), pp. 183-199 (17 pages) First results of the ...

Math isn’t fun. Ask any kid. But Osmo, the company that creates cool iPad apps that interact with physical objects, hopes to change that with Osmo Numbers. The title is the latest in a serious of iPad ...

Odds suggest Madeleine Beatty shouldn’t be a data scientist. She shouldn’t be managing a team at tech-giant Amazon, figuring out complex problems for the largest internet retailer in the world. Beatty ...