Teaching writing and mathematics in the same course leaves Ruth Starkman considering the way humanities and mathematics students approach problems. ... "This is just like the one Lockhart shows in his ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of two essays we’ve published this month about math education. If you have a story you’d like to share about education, you can read more about how to ...

It's the music that makes the universe dance: Scott McLemee reads The Best Writing in Mathematics 2012. Essay on "The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012" Skip to main content ...

“Many kids either don’t understand the meaning of the math or won’t until much later, when they have already been branded as poor in math,” writes software developer Ana Redmond.

The latest scion of a series of annual anthologies published by Princeton University Press, “The Best American Writing on Mathematics 2014” presents a collection of essays on — you guessed ...

A dull pressure starts to thud behind my eyes. “I’m thinking,” I say, a little too sharply. By some estimates, nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults report severe math anxiety, and the vast majority ...

The annual ALOHA DAY Math Olympiad and Essay Competition was held on May 4 at the Sampson G. Smith school in Somerset, NJ. Students enrolled in six ALOHA centers in New Jersey participated.ALOHA ...