Americans are lacking in confidence when it comes to math. Restaurants now print the suggested tip on receipts because so many customers struggle to calculate it — an exercise that draws on 4th ...

Can’t calculate a tip or even balance your checkbook? Take heart; maybe you can blame your brain — specifically, the parietal cortex in the top back part of the head. And it could be a problem that ...

High school teacher John Pallino uses the Math in Music lesson with his Algebra I students In this half-hour video, John Pallino, a teacher at Morristown High School in New Jersey, uses the Math in ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Can’t calculate a tip or even balance your checkbook? Take heart. Maybe you can blame your brain — specifically, the parietal cortex in the top back part of the head. It also could be a problem that ...

There’s a familiar divide between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, the views from inside and outside the schoolhouse are very ...

Math as both profession and course of study can be a hard sell, something even Don Draper might have trouble pitching. The field unites numbers, theories, and ideas that, yes, can be physically ...

You may draw examples from Miguel Secillano, Terence Tao, or even from Shakuntala Devi, all you want – but if getting your kid to sit with their math homework is nothing short of a challenge for you, ...

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