(STACKER) – Let’s face it: Math can be a polarizing subject, especially among high school students who don’t think they’ll ever use it again after graduation. Sometimes kids might dread their ...

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The Washburn University Biology Department showed several northeast Kansas girls how exciting science can be at its annual ...

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A typical 8th grade math textbook includes just a handful of real-world problems for students to solve, finds a new international study. And that’s not enough, according to William Schmidt, ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Interactive numeracy day highlights real-life applications of maths through games,teamwork, and creative challenges ...

Katie Steckles’s article about “Pythagoras in the wild” reminds me of an interesting experience of encountering maths when buying cake tins. I got two “catering-sized” square ones from a commercial ...

Things are either equal or they aren’t – mathematically speaking, at least, right? Not so fast, says Eugenia Cheng in her new book, Unequal: The maths of when things do and don’t add up. In ...