Ensuring that elementary students understand the Five Strands of Math Proficiency can help them build confidence in their ...

His Understanding Math program was used on Pukatawagan Reserve in Manitoba, enthusiastically received by the students. A new initiative in Labrador, this year, will see the introduction of robotics, ...

The problem is, there’s mechanically understanding math, and intuitively understanding math. We recently came across a simple site that tries to help with the latter that deserves a look.

And yet, such concepts can clearly help us to understand physical phenomena. For a while, it seemed all math would in fact do this, e.g., when seemingly abstract equations led us to the discovery ...

I’ve never been a big fan of learning math for math’s sake and a fair number of math classes I’ve had are organized that way. No one ever comes to your office and asks what’s X if 4X+13=2.

More information: Flexible intuitions of Euclidean geometry in an Amazonian indigene group, PNAS, Published online before print May 23, 2011, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1016686108 ...

The Gauss-Bonnet formula is a beautiful equation in differential geometry that asserts the equality of the integral of the Gauss curvature over a surface and a constant multiplied by the Euler ...

Understanding dyscalculia is further complicated because doing math involves logic as well as numbers, and multiple studies document a relation between math skills and both nonnumerical and ...