Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Learning mathematical equations and concepts is one of the most difficult tasks for many people across the globe. There are very few who are invigorated to solve difficult mathematical concepts, ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...