Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...
The proof Wiles finally came up with (helped by Richard Taylor) was something Fermat would never have dreamed up. It tackled the theorem indirectly, by means of an enormous bridge that mathematicians ...
This story is part of a series reported by AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in ...
MATH 1080, part of the Summer Bridge Program, is a course to assist students in refreshing their skills in mathematics from the fundamentals of arithmetic to college-level algebra, trigonometry, and ...
How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nation’s dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems? Clearly, if that was the answer, it would have worked by now–but it hasn’t, as ...
CHEYNEY, Pa. (CBS) -- An HBCU adjunct professor has made it his life's mission to help Black students get more comfortable with math. Akil Parker shares his passion for numbers as an adjunct math ...
For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...
Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...