Associate Professor of Mathematics Katy Ott was the first teacher to introduce Nerea Barranco Aramburu ’25 to the experience of learning through small group collaboration. Ott also introduced Arumbu ...

For generations, math has been taught according to the same, basic class structure—teachers lecture their students on concepts, and then ask them to work individually on math problems in their ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Ask a parent, politician, or school board member to describe the ideal qualifications of a math teacher, and most would probably rank having a college major in that ...

It’s something that educators hear from students in classes, children express to caregivers as they start homework and even adults say to each other when it’s time to calculate the tip for lunch.

People constantly use calculation and number sense in everyday life, often without even realizing it. For instance, it can ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

A lot of struggling math students have found comfort in the mathematical stylings of Salman Khan. A few years back, Khan started creating videos to help tutor his cousin in math. Those videos became ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this Commentary illustration included an incorrect math formula. The correct formula for calculating the area of a circle is A=πr^2. When I was a kid, I hated math. I ...

In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by staring at a whiteboard and copying zeros. They go to a beach and count grains of sand. “Some of them start by ...

Jonathan Hulgan 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 ...