The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

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 ...

Wendy Monroy is a Mathematics Coach for the Los Angeles Unified School District in Los Angeles, California and is a member of the Instructional Leadership Corps, a collaboration among the California ...

Anthony Bonato does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Mathematicians try to figure out when problems can be solved using current knowledge — and when they have to chart a new path instead. In the late 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a ...

Prof Raj Shree Dhar [email protected] Elevate mathematics as reasoning tool and thinking skill, not just rote formulas.

I am a bit troubled by this new column from state Superintendent Richard Woods in which he decries “funny math methods.” I have never understood the assumption that somehow, if parents in Georgia ...