From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

The idea of “reflection” is one of several Euclidean motions in a plane that are studied in geometry. Along with it are concepts such as rotation and translation. It was reflection, however, that I ...

The opportunity to reflect on what they know helps students strengthen their mathematical understanding and supports ...

I can’t recall the last time the death of a school teacher, much less a math teacher, attracted as much attention as the recent death of Jaime Escalante . Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a ...

Mathematical Cultures, The London Meetings 2012-2014 A very recently published book "Mathematical Cultures, London Meetings 2012-2014," edited by Brendan Larvor, contains a chapter titled "Mathematics ...

When nine-year-old Elizabeth sat down for an after-school math program with Black Girls Love Math, she wasn’t just solving ...

Thomas J. Fararo, Reflections on Mathematical Sociology, Sociological Forum, Vol. 12, No. 1, Special Issue: Mathematics in Thinking about Sociology (Mar., 1997), pp ...

Part of the joy of the winter break is that it’s a chance to read something longer than twenty pages. I spent part of it reading Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction,” which is well worth ...

Problem-Solving Through Math Explanations Writing math explanations allows you to showcase your problem-solving skills and share your mathematical journey with others.

Specifically, scientists have long debated whether the basis of high-level mathematical thought is tied to the brain’s language-processing centers—that thinking at such a level of abstraction ...