Stellar athletes, successful entrepreneurs, and motivational speakers like to say that pressure makes diamonds. The higher the stakes and the harder the circumstances, the thinking goes, the more ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

A student holds a graded math assignment, illustrating how strong grades can mask underlying gaps in conceptual understanding ...

A key instructional shift called for by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics is the dual emphasis on conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. NCTM draws a connection between these ...

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There’s a line from the original Star Trek where Khan says, “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold.” Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron ...

Your intuitive thinking about a problem is productive and usefully structured, wasting little time on being aimlessly puzzled. For example, when answering a question about a high-dimensional space ...

Most of us either have a visceral fear of Mathematics or there is a complete awe. This largely depends on the way the subject is taught at school and undergraduate level. Academician Geetha ...

My relationship to mathematics has never been easy, nor has it been consistent. Sometimes I disliked math and did not think I could achieve success. Sometimes I loved mathematics and could not imagine ...