If you look past numbers and computations and distill math to its essence, it's all about creativity, 17-year-old James Tao says. “When I think of math, when I think of coming up with a proof where ...

Would you rather read a book about mythical sea creatures or do a sheet of multiplication problems? Given the choice between listening to a hilarious Read Aloud featuring Elephant and Piggie or ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 84, No. 2, Special Issue: Alternative perspectives on learning mathematics in the early years (October 2013), pp. 183-199 (17 pages) First results of the ...

COMPTON (KABC) -- Let's face it -- Math itself isn't exciting to most students in middle school. But in Compton, one teacher is thinking outside the box, using a coding class to change her students' ...

Shanequa Dasher is a former teacher who is bridging the gap between math and creativity through her company Dasher Creations. She sat down with Jessica Abo to talk about her program “Calculate and ...

Precision and creativity. At first thought, one might consider these words to be incompatible. However, many things we enjoy allow space for both. Baking requires a recipe and measurements, but there ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The math behind video games, skate parks and roller coasters are just some of the topics in a new hands-on exhibit at the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM). Design Zone was made ...

I attended a conference last week where the keynote speaker gave excellent advice on why every student should be able to be proficient in algebra and physics. He started his presentation with displays ...

Odds suggest Madeleine Beatty shouldn’t be a data scientist. She shouldn’t be managing a team at tech-giant Amazon, figuring out complex problems for the largest internet retailer in the world. Beatty ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HIGH POINT, N.C. — Dr. Shirley Disseler is ...

This niche analysis from Boaler (Limitless Minds), an education professor at Stanford University, explores strategies for improving how students learn math. Rather than insisting students learn rigid ...

Math isn’t fun. Ask any kid. But Osmo, the company that creates cool iPad apps that interact with physical objects, hopes to change that with Osmo Numbers. The title is the latest in a serious of iPad ...