Late last month, over 400 high school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day conference, titled “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education and Social ...

MORE than 400 New York City high-school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn late last month for a three-day conference on “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education ...

From incorporating rap into lessons to using the “Hejný method,” educators are increasingly looking for creative ways to make math more interesting to students and more applicable to “real-world” ...

THERE’S a fifth column in New York City’s public schools – radical teachers who openly undermine Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s curriculum mandates and use their classrooms to indoctrinate students ...

Can social and economic justice issues be integrated into mathematics curricula? Radical Math, Long Island University, and Math for America, a nonprofit founded by a Wall Street titan, James Simons, ...

I want to begin a discussion of algebra by saying that too few children have any real understanding of the civil rights movement. Bear with me. When kids know anything at all, it is usually a kind of ...

Most of us either loved or hated math in school. If you grew up with negative feelings about math, you can avoid inadvertently passing these attitudes to your children. When I taught math in grade ...

In an AP poll, over 1/3 of adults polled about school year math experiences indicated that they “hated” math in school. In fact, math was twice as despised as any other subject. Even if math was not ...

WATCH BELOW as Sun’s political columnist Brian Lilley talks about how math teachers with the influential (but unofficial), Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA), claim the basic math ...