Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in traditional high school classes, many have embraced trendy curricula ...

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

ChatGPT Study Mode wasn’t built for journalists with math trauma—but it turns out, it’s exactly what I needed. This week, I got a sneak peek at ChatGPT’s new Study Mode during an OpenAI press demo on ...

The typical ambitious high school student takes advanced algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus. None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend ...

Chance Harrison and Jaylen Garibay, seniors at Rio Mesa High School, compare data and work on an analysis they collected on student stress levels. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The ...

I recently finished reading "The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions" by Andrew Hacker. I came on his writing through some opinion pieces he wrote, and I think there was a big piece in The Atlantic.

The way Michelle Truax’s eighth-grade algebra students were enthusiastically blurting out answers, it appeared they were grasping the day’s lesson. But when six students came up with wrong solutions ...

Middle school is often a time of change for students. New friends, new schools, and a time of physical growth during the sticky subject of puberty. It's also a critical period during another sticky ...

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