Math anxiety is a rampant problem across the country. Researchers now know that when people with math anxiety encounter ...

If you think the realms of passion and logic are polar opposites, think again. Last night as part of the L.A. Central Library’s ALOUD speaking series, mathematician Edward Frenkel (who once appeared ...

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Let’s take a moment to imagine a world in which people not only “get” math... but love math. Where would we be as educators? As individuals? As a workforce? As an economy? As a country? My seventh ...

AMES, Iowa – It happens all the time. Just mentioning the word math sparks an automatic response that is rarely positive. “Whenever I tell people I’m a mathematician they always say, ‘Oh, I hate math, ...

This post is by Jeff Heyck-Williams, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Two Rivers Public Charter School, Washington, D.C. A few years ago, I left an interview with an elementary school candidate ...

After two decades in the education system as a math teacher, principal and administrator, Atiyah Harmon noticed a problem: young Black girls in middle school were increasingly disinterested in ...

On Saturday morning, math and Eagles mania collided inside a classroom at St. James School. Atiyah Harmon, an educator since 2002, led the class, and students confidently calculated their predictions ...

I meet a lot of parents whose kids are still young, sometimes not even school age, who are already convinced that their kids are not cut out for careers in math, tech or science. One mom told me that ...

A new film set at the International Mathematical Olympiad is a story of love and numbers. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Stanford University professor Keith Devlin about what the competition entails. A ...