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 ...

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Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them.

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...

A documentary about the need for everyone to know math — "Counted Out — Math is Power" — will be shown at 6:40 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 15, at Muncie Central High School. The presentation is free and ...

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...