Amid falling student scores and renewed debates about how the subject should be taught, math is in the spotlight once again. The pandemic, which affected student learning across the board, had ...

About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

After 20 years teaching high school math, I thought I understood why students struggled. Then I sat in my first professional learning session focused on early math and was humbled. Like many secondary ...

Matthew Karabinos was hesitant to try ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool, when it first came out in 2022. The 6th grade math teacher was concerned about what the technology would mean ...

It’s something that educators hear from students in classes, children express to caregivers as they start homework and even adults say to each other when it’s time to calculate the tip for lunch.

Back in 2019, Po-Shen Loh—an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and national coach of the U.S. International Mathematics Olympiad—taught the world a new way of solving quadratic ...