Do we need to reimagine how we teach math? If AI will be as ubiquitous as we believe it to be, will its inevitability require a pronounced emphasis in math throughout our education system? While it ...

COFFEE COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) — A local educator is making waves in Coffee County with a mission to change the way students view math—before the school year even begins. CeCelia Coke, MBA, is a teacher, ...

One of my first vivid memories of math is of timed tests. I still remember how visceral my panic felt–sweaty palms, heart pounding–as I scrambled to recall facts before the clock ran out. You might ...

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Corner Middle School math teacher Zach Weldon had planned for the chaos of 24 students racing to play each other in rock paper scissors. The eighth-grade classroom buzzed with noise and activity. “Two ...

A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring, nearly all ...

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Even more concerning is that ...

Boys are good at math, girls not so much? A study from the University of Zurich has analyzed the social mechanisms that contribute to the gender gap in math confidence. While peer comparisons seem to ...

In the late 1980s, the Biosphere 2 project sealed a team of scientists inside a self-sustaining miniature world. Their goal was to see if a closed system could support human life, serving as a ...

Joy and enthusiasm provide essential components to build the motivation and perseverance needed to understand and succeed in math. Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience research show correlations ...

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