AS “A Father” has asked me by name in your columns what book I can recommend as laying a foundation for the geometry of the future, I suppose I ought to answer him, though I cannot do so by a simple ...

For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. The kids had fun, but the ...

Earlier this month, Barbara Oakley, engineering professor at Oakland University and author of “Learning How to Learn" published an opinion piece called "Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She'll Thank ...

It's time for us to take an objective look at our math programs in secondary schools. We have injected a new level of psychology and motivation, packaged it together with the number line, set theory, ...

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