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, ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Lindsey Henderson hopes to change the conversation about math in her state. As student math performance declined in Utah and states across the nation over the pandemic, most learning-recovery efforts ...

Unlike other elementary and middle school mathematics courses, algebra begins to introduce abstract relationships and ideas. While textbooks attempt to give students real-world illustrations of these ...

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For 12-year-old Rylee Anderson, the algebra concept of graphing a function just didn’t make sense. Since her classes are now all remote due to the coronavirus pandemic, Anderson emailed her teacher ...