At MIT, professors grapple with how to teach students to communicate about numbers in clear English. When course requirements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shifted 10 years ago, faculty ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do you integrate writing in math classes? All teachers these days are supposed to be literacy teachers, including math educators. Yes, students need to read word ...

In an attempt to attract more freshmen to theoretical mathematics, the math department expanded its offerings this school year. Last fall, it introduced the MATH 60 “Modern Mathematics: Discrete ...

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One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

Orland School District 135 is sticking with a computer-centric junior high math curriculum that parents seem to either embrace or detest. The Digits program, aimed at implementing new national ...