The National Association of Scholars has pushed its model standards in social studies, science and English language arts. Now it’s set its sights on math.
Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight The proposed ...
From schoolkids learning about constant numbers to pizza deals to school serious math equations, here’s a slice of Pi Day fun.
Math is always reinventing itself. In the late 19th century, its foundations were still shaky, its definitions and assumptions vague and uncertain. Mathematicians spent decades fixing the problem, ...
I’d like to start today with a little simple math. If you had the enviable task of spending a billion dollars over the course of 30 years. With no earned interest or investment income during that ...
The recent Opinion column from Veronique De Rugy is problematic with the conclusions guiding younger generation in its assumptions that the Baby Boomers are taking excessive payouts from Social ...
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has ended. The media will spin this as a complicated political standoff. It wasn't. The math tells the story. Senate Democrats blocked a clean ...
Create a math block. Add a simple expression. Place the cursor in a block before or after the block. Use the arrow keys to navigate between blocks. Attempt to move the cursor into the math editor. I ...
Re: “Checking our math” (Oct. 19, Opinion): I wish to reinforce the author’s exhortation to take a scientific look at how math is taught. I am a docent at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery and have led ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: The importance of math literacy cannot be overstated (“Math crisis began a decade ago and has only ...
The first was Spanish, which I took all four years of high school while barely paying attention and barely passing. When you consider that we later bought an apartment in Mexico City and spend half ...