Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, that too many classrooms focus too much on ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) recommends that spatial reasoning should be a large focus of preK - 8th grade math education. “At first we had no idea what it meant,” Thomson ...

On Sept. 12, OpenAI announced a new ChatGPT model that the company says is substantially better at math and science than previous versions, which struggled with reasoning. An earlier model scored ...

All of my research studies have shown that when mathematics is opened up and broader math is taught—math that includes problem solving, reasoning, representing ideas in multiple forms, and ...

Having completed the Math and Quantitative Reasoning course, students will be able to: Choose appropriate methods or models for a given problem, ... as well as the prerequisite requirement of 3 full ...

I’ve never managed to master much beyond the nuts and bolts of math. I was an honor student who could ace almost every subject, but ninth-grade geometry tripped me up. I slipped through with a C ...

Holding back kids who are gifted at math isn't equitable: On the contrary, it's extremely unfair to everyone. Yet the framework seems to reject the notion that some kids are more gifted than others.

Elementary math teacher Margie Howells teaches a 5th grade class at Wheeling Country Day School in Wheeling, W.V., on Sept. 5, 2023. A new survey of U.S. adults finds that they don't agree on the ...

It’s time to reconsider the dominance of calculus. It’s been more than 10 years since math and science leaders began calling for change. In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped ...

High school students planning to apply to the University of California now have a broader set of courses they can take to meet the math requirement for admission to the public university system.. As ...