Understanding the gap between how today's parents learned math and how their children are being taught, and how to work with ...

Collaboration can’t just be assigned—it needs to be nurtured, and students can learn to assess their progress in building ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

One of the biggest barriers for secondary English learners in math is not computation, but language. The subject’s complex ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Will I ever need math besides for school or work ...