The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...

In a post-Covid world, we can no longer assume that a student’s age and mathematical experiences line up in previously expected ways. Indeed, they may not even be close. It’s a tension that’s always ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

Math, as author and University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg writes, may not be the most readily accessible subject in school. When faced with a complex equation a student may ask, “When am ...

Mathematics education must move beyond marks and memorisation, focusing instead on reasoning, problem-solving, and creative ...

One of the prerogatives I enjoy as DesignCon Program Director is getting a first look as all of the papers as they arrive. With over eighty papers on the schedule, I can only skim most of them. Still, ...

Answer by Daniel McLaury, Ph.D. Student in Mathematics, on Quora, I'll think about this question in terms of the U.S. population, because that's easiest for me to picture in my head. There are around ...

Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing numbers. Despite this dedicated cluster, mathematical ...