A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.
Historically, teachers have been criticized for verbalizing innovations while not acting on them. This study suggests that something more involved and complex may be happening as teachers move toward ...
When instructors at Bronx-area community colleges applied for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how students think about fundamental concepts of calculus, they hoped to gain a better ...
Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 426-440 (15 pages) Following Matthew Lipman (Lipman, 1991; Lipman, Sharp, & Oscanyan, 1980), we ...
In a country in which more than 60% of learners lag behind foundational mathematics concepts, Reflective Learning is transforming the way South Africa tackles education. Born from a deep understanding ...
Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...