Disdain for "Common Core" math instruction and the requirement that students explain their answers crosses all manner of partisan boundaries. Unfortunately, it's dead wrong: explaining answers is ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

Lockhart's entire essay is a beautifully and passionately written plea for a better way of educating students to truly understand the wonderful world of mathematics.

Essay writing and math class might seem like oil and water, two things that don’t mix easily. But there’s increasing evidence that students who are asked to write about what they are learning master ...