K-12 education should de-emphasize computers and graphing calculators in all but the highest math classes.  Too many students are allowed...

Reports like this make me rub my head and sigh.  It’s wrong right out of the gate: Higher education institutions in California and across...

This author invites a total restructuring of K-14 education: Any restructuring effort must start with getting the funding right, which...

Joanne’s off to Africa and handed me the reins, and my first post will be a link to a rant about declining algebra skills in my school...

Forbes has an excellent “decade retrospective” on education reform and suggests where we might look for results in the next decade: Now...

Joy Pullman rants well. In The Federalist, she takes on social justice math. University of Illinois Professor Rochelle Gutierrez, who...

book titled Math with Bad Drawings after his blog. “Orlin shows us how to think like a mathematician by teaching us a brand-new game of...

Credit: ClipartXtras Having failed their way through middle school, students are passed on to high school, writes Darren Miller on Right...

Does a third-grade teacher need to know high school math? asks Ann Doss Helms in the Charlotte Observer. “Almost 2,400 North Carolina...

Teen-age girls are groomed for the STEM lifestyle in summer coding camps. “With responses ranging from “squirming in discomfort” to...

To learn math, drill and instill math skills, writes Barbara Oakley in the New York Times opinion column. If it’s hard, so much the...

Nobody takes algebra in eighth grade in San Francisco’s district schools any more, reports Ed Week‘s Stephen Sawchuk. In the name of...

Young people can succeed in technical jobs even with mediocre grades in math and science or liberal arts majors, claims a new study, on...

Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning math, science and programming — and competing in contests such as MakerMinded to expose them to...

On Medium, Alex Korchinski writes about what he learned by majoring in applied math — other than math. He learned to tolerate frustration...

The switch to Common Core instruction was annoying, intriguing, inconsistent and sometimes unnoticeable, concludes a survey of 54...

At a highly selective public magnet school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology near Washington D.C., 65 percent of...

Teachers teach better than students, writes Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution. “A slew of research shows that direct instruction...

Math literacy — using numbers to understand real-world problems — should be the goal of high school math classes, concludes a report from...

Algebra 2 is the gatekeeper to college, writes Pamela Burdman, of Just Equations on EdSource Today. Many students never make it past. “A...