Florida’s state education agency rejected dozens of math textbooks this past spring because, officials contended, they contained common-core learning standards or violated a state law that prohibits ...

Most of my memories from middle and high school math involve using a textbook: “Turn to page 237 and complete problems 2-20 even.” This was not a particularly engaging or empowering way for me to ...

CHAMPAIGN – Students in Champaign schools next year will take their first look at geometry in kindergarten. "Understanding Geometry" is one of three new books to be purchased for kindergarten students ...

A group of eighth-grade math teachers have written a letter, weighing in on the months-long controversy triggered by the use of a textbook, "College Preparatory Mathematics," this year in what the ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to take feelings out of the equation. DeSantis on Monday defended his education department’s rejection of math textbooks as part of an effort to eliminate ...

The Florida Department of Education has released examples of questions that caused math textbooks to be rejected in the 2022-2023 school year curriculum. Thes examples come from an earlier report, ...

Students take part in a fifth-grade math class in Hillsboro. (Brent Wojahn / The Oregonian / 2013) Leaders at the Oregon Department of Education , set to begin this spring, by two years. If the Oregon ...

In 2018, Petra Menz, a senior lecturer in mathematics, was facing a problem: the textbook for two required courses in the social sciences calculus stream was going out of print. Fueled by a desire to ...

After math textbooks were recently rejected by the Florida Department of Education because it said they contain “prohibited topics” like critical race theory, the department released examples of what ...