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

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. Research analyzed 49 studies with 37,654 participants and discovered something remarkable: reading comprehension had a significantly strong ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

The Humboldt County Office of Education (HCOE) is working hard to support students, teachers, and families when it comes to learning math. In 2022, Humboldt County joined the Rural Math Collaborative ...

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

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 ...

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 – ...

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, ...

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...