Stanford math professor Jo Boaler explains the problem with how we teach math, and how to fix it. ... Math Class Doesn’t Work. Here’s the Solution. 5 minute read. Getty Images. Ideas.

The problems they worked on in math class weren’t that interesting. Less than half of students said that their work was often or always interesting, with 23 percent saying it never or rarely was.

Questions related to plot and language, Bezaire said, help his less confident math students. “Students who more easily self-identify as ‘English types’ immediately get a little more comfortable in ...

Math Class Made Delicious: Learn About Cones Through Scones : The Salt "Conic sections" are the four kinds of curves that result when a plane slices through a cone. But if you forgot that bit of ...

Top Math Students Seldom Go Into Teaching. Students who are good at math have a lot of options. As a result, few of them go into teaching. Since the US educates more teachers than it needs ...

In “California Leftists Try to Cancel Math Class” (op-ed, May 19), Williamson M. Evers correctly quotes some of the antiracist dogmas being promoted that will frustrate math learning. However ...

That work has resulted in math models for cornrows, Native American bead work, henna designs, adinkras and others. Adinkras — symbols for Twi proverbs — link math and meaning.

The fact that her work was highlighted, and that the class was talking about how her work supported their understanding of the math content, positioned her as a capable and competent math student.

More class time is pointless if the curriculum isn’t up to par When the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released its international student achievement rankings in December ...

Other students in this Integrated Math 2 class are running into the same problems — lots of pretty simple mistakes. “We did 40 over x instead of x over 40 because this is the rise and this is ...