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Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

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Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

Newest edition of research-proven, evidence-based program brings math thinking into students' everyday lives, helping them develop skills and confidence to become real-world ready Savvas Learning ...

In a post-Covid world, we can no longer assume that a student’s age and mathematical experiences line up in previously expected ways. Indeed, they may not even be close. It’s a tension that’s always ...

Getting students to talk about their thinking process in math can give teachers insight into where they need help. But it’s also a potentially powerful equity strategy, experts say. And as teachers ...

One of the prerogatives I enjoy as DesignCon Program Director is getting a first look as all of the papers as they arrive. With over eighty papers on the schedule, I can only skim most of them. Still, ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...