Garen J. Wintemute ([email protected]) is the Baker-Teret Chair in Violence Prevention and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California Davis, in Sacramento. He directs the ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Pope Leo XIV's intellectual background and the "Math Pope" phenomenon In addition to his ministerial and governmental credentials, Pope Leo XIV adds a considerable intellectual lineage to the ...

If you're old enough, you probably remember getting a line from your math teacher that you need to learn the steps to an equation because "you won't always be carrying a calculator with you." ...

It's also a critical period during another sticky subject for many students — in math class. But why is middle school math so important, and why are so many Ohio students struggling to keep on ...

A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring ...

Many students placed in remedial college math courses do not graduate. Ohio colleges are using co-requisite courses to improve math preparedness and completion rates. Co-requisite courses allow ...

North Carolina lawmakers could overhaul high school math requirements and make it mandatory for students to pass a U.S. history test to get a diploma. The N.C. House voted 69-43 on Wednesday to ...

Kenny Felder, a math teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, explains repeating decimals to calculus students in February 2019. Julia Wall News & Observer file photo North Carolina lawmakers could ...

American high schoolers are approaching graduation with less of a grasp on reading and still-low math scores – and that's before factoring in the pandemic. The average reading score for high ...

And math class is the prime environment for mastering these skills. That is the perspective of Po-Shen Loh, a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a former coach of the U.S ...