Meanwhile, depriving people of a proper mathematics education really is oppressive. For a less oppressive mathematics curriculum, therefore, schools should just teach the numbers.

Even during the summer break, Ontario high school teachers Jamie Mitchell and Tamara Phillips know that many conversations ...

A University of Toronto education researcher is raising concerns about requiring new teachers to pass a math test, saying they could dissuade people from diverse backgrounds from entering ...

Join the conversation Isabella Ferritto is only certified to teach students up to Grade 6. "I'm not going to teach Grade 9 math," she says. Photo by Tony Caldwell / Postmedia ...

“What it does is it meets people where they’re at,” Sul said, adding ongoing math-related professional development is also critical for teachers once they are in the workforce.

But teachers, he said, are doing both: instructing their students on math fluency and immersing them in complex problems. “This debate to me is you got to do one versus the other, and it’s not ...

“We have people, often women, who come to college and take their general ed. requirements, and then they come to our [math] classes and say, ‘I’m not really good at mathematics,’” Lee ...

Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why ...

The ‘Shanghai approach’ to teaching math has taken on almost mystical qualities, thanks to tests that ranked the city tops in the world in math performance – and revealed that Canada is slipping ...

The Master in the Teaching of Mathematics (MTM) is an academic program in mathematics education. Its aims are threefold: to improve the professionalism of secondary school teachers; to prepare college ...