Newswise — Prof. Zalman Usiskin made an audacious promise in the mid-1980s while recruiting a high school math teacher to manage editorial content for the University of Chicago School Mathematics ...

Math? Can I use it? Source: Roman Mager/Unsplash Parents and teachers have heard this question in many forums, “Will I use this math in “real” life?” This is a question that math teachers and parents ...

My colleague Catie O'Toole has a story in today's Post-Standard about Everyday Math -- a new way schools are teaching kids mathematics. Actually, it's not quite new. It's been around for 25 years, but ...

Language and reasoning skills help predict math performance, offering clues to the learning difficulties that a test score ...

Earlier this month, Barbara Oakley, engineering professor at Oakland University and author of “Learning How to Learn" published an opinion piece called "Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She'll Thank ...

School closures due to conronavirus have put parents in the challenging position of home-schooling their children. In mathematics education programs for future math teachers, we often discuss the ...

Parents play a critical role in their children’s early math education. They not only can provide math-related toys and games, but serve as role models demonstrating how math is used in everyday ...

MRO is an integral component in the delivery of service activities conducted by the faculty in the Department of Mathematics. The MRO contains numerous resources for use by in-service and pre-service ...

Math learning begins while counting blocks on the living room floor, comparing ingredients while cooking dinner or gathering ...

Math anxiety is a common and significant hurdle for many students, especially those with dyscalculia, a learning disability that interferes with math comprehension, computation, and other functions.

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 ...