Here are four activities that can be used in conjunction with your standard math instruction to encourage a positive math ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The idea of “reflection” is one of several Euclidean motions in a plane that are studied in ...

I can’t recall the last time the death of a school teacher, much less a math teacher, attracted as much attention as the recent death of Jaime Escalante. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a movie ...

Sociological Forum, Vol. 12, No. 1, Special Issue: Mathematics in Thinking about Sociology (Mar., 1997), pp. 73-101 (29 pages) As a participant in the development of mathematical sociology over the ...

Students are barely beginning to recover from a historic decline in math performance. Across every grade and region of the country, students in every racial, income, and disability group have ...

Mathematics and writing might seem worlds apart, but literacy in both subjects might need some improvements when they come together. Whether you love math or find it challenging, incorporating writing ...

Part of the joy of the winter break is that it’s a chance to read something longer than twenty pages. I spent part of it reading Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction,” which is well worth ...

The oldest mathematics journal in the Western Hemisphere in continuous publication, the American Journal of Mathematics ranks as one of the most respected and celebrated journals in its field.