My youngest son is a whiz at math - as long as he can figure out problems in his head. But his uncanny ability to make sense of numbers is lost when he looks at a formulaic math problem. When he was ...

Let’s say you’re entering your senior year of high school. Your school district, or your state, is requiring you to take a fourth year of math. But the only options offered, in addition to the courses ...

Explicit learning goals Interactive lectures Transformed homework problems (including a "bank" of potential HW problems) Common student difficulties & in-class group activities/tutorials Concept tests ...

While it is true there is only one right answer to every math problem, elementary school teacher and Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching winner Michael Flynn believes there is ...

Mary E. Pilgrim receives funding from National Science Foundation. Thomas Dick receives funding from National Science Foundation. In 1939, the fictional professor J. Abner Pediwell published a curious ...