During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in ...
You pay for a latte with money from your Starbucks app, so your bank account balance doesn’t change. That means the coffee was basically free, right? This is just one example of “girl math,” a trend ...
A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...
Our experiences in the math classroom largely influence our perceptions of the subject long after schooling, Edwards said. Cox believes one reason for this is that mathematics is a status giver. When ...
A while ago, I got interested in mathematics, mostly because I had done so poorly at it in school. I’m being coy. I didn’t do poorly; I pretty much failed. I only passed by cheating. Anyway, I bought ...
BALTIMORE -- A new personal finance trend has TikTok users recommending humorous new ways to rethink their spending habits. We've all justified unnecessary purchases before, but now social media has ...
Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...
How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...
A recent article in The Cut that described the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses anxiety that the FX/Hulu series Fleishman is in Trouble is inducing in a certain milieu of upper-middle-class parents let ...
No matter the age, there's one school subject that just doesn't add up for many people, and trying to solve it can bring nerves and even fear. Balancing weights, measuring steps and stacking blocks ...
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