Education officials release four examples among the 54 math textbooks they rejected last week because of ‘prohibited topics’ Education officials in Florida have been criticized for putting “political ...

A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using "real-world," concrete examples. Researchers found that college students who learned a ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its truths are so ...

Our hydra is a rooted tree. The root (black, at the bottom) is the body, and the leaves (blue) are its heads. Just like Hercules, you are going to cut off its heads, one at a time. But, just like with ...

When studying to become a math teacher, many teachers-in-training are taught to use concrete, real world examples to help illustrate mathematical concepts. New research, published in last week's ...