Dan Finkel runs Math for Love with his wife, Katherine Cook. They have developed two games: Tiny Polka Dot: A math-enriched card deck for 3- to 8-year-olds. “It’s really flexible,” Finkel said. You ...

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With the right lesson plan, teachers can turn struggling students into budding mathematicians. The secret is carefully guiding their adventure in numbers I still vividly remember the day, 14 years ago ...

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Women make up nearly half of the college-educated workforce, but hold less than a quarter of STEM jobs — as in jobs that involve science, technology, engineering and math. Actress turned mathematician ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...

What happens when you're attempting to teach from home in California during a coronavirus lockdown during the week that Half Life: Alyx lands? You do both, of course. Extremely cool teacher Charles ...

It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...

There’s a change coming to Ontario’s elementary school math curriculum. The new provincial government says it is responding to a decline of standardized test scores and plans to recommend a return to ...