Technology is often promoted as a solution to our educational challenges, but truly effective, research-based innovations are few and far between. However, a new partnership announced today brings ...

Why do so many students hate math, fear it, or both? If you ask most students what they think their role is in math classrooms, they will tell you it is to get questions right. Students rarely think ...

Led by math teacher Alexis Dekel and dancer Kimberly Rae Gilbert, the eight-member coed team creates movements to interpret concepts such as right angles, numerals and more abstract quantitative ...

As a mathematics educator for the last seven years, I can attest that most folks believe they either are or are not “math people.” And that idea of innate math ability is very harmful to both those ...

WINNEBAGO (WREX) – One senior at Winnebago High School said students jump for joy when they see Lisa Mitchell on their class schedule because she is such a good math teacher. “She’s always a teacher ...

My name is Celeste Gonzalez. I am a first-generation, low-income Latina. I was once an English Language Development student, and statistics have shown that I should not have made it this far in my ...

Staying silent is a bad tactic for ducking under the radar in professor Betty Mayfield's math class. Mayfield, who has been teaching at Hood College for more than 30 years, said she tries to maintain ...