Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Military scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over a year ago put out a call to get answers to what it called the world’s 23 toughest math questions with the idea that major ...

Students can’t succeed in math if they’re never exposed to it. And many students never get access to advanced—or even some foundational—math in high school. New federal civil rights data and an ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Andrew Hacker has a bombshell opinion piece in last Sunday’s NY Times, arguing that teaching algebra to all students is a wasted effort. Students are routinely told that math is a gateway subject—you ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 29, No. 2, Advanced Mathematical Thinking (Sep., 1995), pp. 175-197 (23 pages) Certain concepts in mathematics were not invented only to solve new problems; ...

Virginia’s public schools have been in the national spotlight the past few days, with a Fox News headline and resulting social media chatter saying the state is eliminating advanced math classes ...

California is preparing to overhaul the way math is taught to 6 million kindergarten through 12th graders, the first major changes since 2013. Here are essential elements of the draft Mathematics ...