One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

Have you ever called a doctor’s office or a company and had to punch in the answers to five questions before being put on hold? Have you then waited for several minutes to the accompaniment of ...

Last week’s question was: What is the best advice you would give to help an educator become better at teaching math? As I mentioned in Part One of this series, I have very limited teaching experience ...

In May 2009, Michele Osherow, an English professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and dramaturg at the Folger Theatre, in Washington, invited her colleague Manil Suri, a mathematician ...

Students can have a range of physical, cognitive, sensory, and learning disabilities that affect their entire lives. Any of these might pose unique academic challenges, particularly when learning ...

Andrew Hacker is the author of The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions, published this month by The New Press. Hacker, an 86-year-old professor emeritus of political science at Queens College, City ...

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Children are going into fight-or-flight at the mere thought of doing math. Self-Reg helps us to understand why this is happening and what we might do about it. An alarmingly large number of early ...