At MIT, professors grapple with how to teach students to communicate about numbers in clear English. When course requirements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shifted 10 years ago, faculty ...

Numbers are not just a tool for analysis. Numbers also communicate. Once you’ve figured out the numbers for your story, the next step is to be able to use them clearly in your writing. No matter how ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do you integrate writing in math classes? All teachers these days are supposed to be literacy teachers, including math educators. Yes, students need to read word ...

In an attempt to attract more freshmen to theoretical mathematics, the math department expanded its offerings this school year. Last fall, it introduced the MATH 60 “Modern Mathematics: Discrete ...

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 ...

In The Atlantic's ongoing debate about how to teach writing in schools, Robert Pondiscio wrote an eye-opening piece called "How Self-Expression Damaged My Students." In it, he tells of how he used ...

Orland School District 135 is sticking with a computer-centric junior high math curriculum that parents seem to either embrace or detest. The Digits program, aimed at implementing new national ...