Math wars “The traditional method worked really well for me. It was easy to teach and easy to get a good result,” said Audrey Buffington, a resident of South Thomaston who taught public school math ...
Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated as out of reach. Systems tuned for symbolic reasoning are now cracking long ...
Facts & Arguments is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. As a math teacher, there were many days I hated math more than my ...
Experts are questioning the relevance of pushing all college-bound students to take calculus, arguing that the “narrow pathway toward calculus … fails to serve most students.” Credit: Erika Rich for ...
As if California schools were not facing enough political battles, now even math instruction has become part of the raging ideological debate. A proposal to change the math framework for the state’s 6 ...