As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

The May 5 article, “5 Research-Backed Ways to Help Students Catch up in Math,” reminded me of my early days as a teacher and school leader. I regularly worked one-on-one with middle and high school ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Across the nation, kids are heading back to school. It’s an exciting time. I remember both the joy and the nervousness that came with my now twin 13-year-olds' first starting school. In fact, one day ...

Trigonometry and calculus often trouble board exam students due to heavy formulas and poor conceptual clarity. This article ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Time has an arrow: It only ever seems to move in one direction. The future is always unknown to us, while the past forever remains locked and inaccessible. And yet, the vast majority of the laws of ...

Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast range of applications extending well beyond the atomic realm, from predicting the ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs are making concepts once confined to science fiction, like time travel, seem tantalizingly closer to reality. From the potential of humans living to 1,000 years to the ...