Many students complain and question math learning in school because they feel it isn’t necessary for their future lives. However, many students don’t realize that math is used and applied everywhere.
When you’re solving a challenging math problem, you know your brain is working hard. But what, exactly, is going on in there? Despite decades of research into math teaching and learning, there is ...
The new question-of-the-week is: How can project-based learning be used in math class? Project-based learning is a popular instructional strategy for many subjects, though it is not used as much in ...
Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...
Harrison Stalvey designed a new approach to writing exam questions for his Calculus 1 exams during the move to remote learning in Spring 2020 to avoid using a proctoring service. During the sudden ...
Are students’ math struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic completely unprecedented? Yes and no. Disruption in schools has also meant disruption in testing, so it’s been hard to pin down exactly how ...
While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...
About five decades ago, scientists believed that our brains were fixed — either at birth or by the time we were adolescents. This led to the schooling approach that now fills schools: identifying ...