East High math teacher Carmela Buranday works with freshmen and sophomores using a new online textbook the Wichita school district has implemented for middle and high school algebra and geometry ...
Concerned about what they see as a dearth of instructional materials aligned with the Common Core State Standards in math, several educators in Utah, with support from the state office of education, ...
The Fulton County school board has approved instructional materials for teaching Algebra I and Geometry. The textbooks, offered in both print and digital versions, are published by McGraw-Hill. School ...
In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...
Scott Miller uploads a video from a math program used at Naperville Central High School. When he hits play, a clip from a “Seinfeld” episode pops up. Kramer and Frank are attempting to play pool in a ...
Seattle Public Schools’ choice of new high-school math textbooks has been challenged by three people who say the books’ approach is failing many students. The Seattle School Board recently approved ...
Donald and Antonia Chacon-Taylor, ages 10 and 9, may not be representative children for a story about math in public schools. Mom has a Ph.D. in physics. Dad has a Ph.D. in chemistry. But they ...