I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why the national reaction was so strong to Andrew Hacker’s op-ed in last Sunday’s NY Times, “Is Algebra Necessary? ” After engaging with various blog posts and ...
A 9th-century Persian scholar, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, revolutionized mathematics by introducing systematic methods ...
Understanding fractions is a critical mathematical ability, and yet it's one that continues to confound a lot of people well into adulthood. New research finds evidence for an innate ratio processing ...
Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...