This post is by Jeff Heyck-Williams, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Two Rivers Public Charter School, Washington, D.C. A few years ago, I left an interview with an elementary school candidate ...

Photo by Daniel Mollenkamp for EdSurge. PHILADELPHIA — Elle Oliver knows anger. Multiplying by 12 used to make the rising sixth grader fume. Now she’s tackling integers with relative calm. Still, ...

Let’s take a moment to imagine a world in which people not only “get” math... but love math. Where would we be as educators? As individuals? As a workforce? As an economy? As a country? My seventh ...

I meet a lot of parents whose kids are still young, sometimes not even school age, who are already convinced that their kids are not cut out for careers in math, tech or science. One mom told me that ...

New University of Delaware alumna Jenna Paltenstein gravitated toward mathematics early, her love for the subject already evident in elementary school. When she got to UD, she took advantage of all it ...

Quanta Magazine invites readers to share about their early math and science learning experiences and to explore the interactive survey results. To be sure, this is a thoroughly unscientific survey of ...

The words love and math aren't usually uttered in the same breath. But mathematician Edward Frenkel is on a mission to change that, uniting the terms in both his recent film, "The Rites of Love and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. The Korean drama Melancholia opens with a dramatic ...

Growing up on the set of the television series The Wonder Years meant actress Danica McKellar, 43, spent her school years in a nontraditional way. “I’d go back and forth between regular school and ...

If you think the realms of passion and logic are polar opposites, think again. Last night as part of the L.A. Central Library’s ALOUD speaking series, mathematician Edward Frenkel (who once appeared ...

Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. “I’d be at a party, and I’d tell someone what my book was about, and then I’d be ...