This post is by Curtis A. Taylor, Sixth Grade Math/Science, High Tech Middle North County. “I know that you are capable, and you will be more than excellent.” This is what my seventh grade math ...

In my discipline, Sociology, analyzing autobiographies, or life histories, has a rich foundation. Such narrative analysis enables us to gain insight into the phenomenological life worlds of both self ...

Students' perceptions of their mathematical identity can provide insight into why some lose motivation or underperform in math. "The background of the research project MATHMot is that we know less ...

A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they see their math teacher treating everyone in the class equitably, especially in racially diverse schools. While the ...

No one adjustment to the U.S. math education system will immediately result in students gaining mathematical power. But by focusing on students' identities and designing math courses that align with ...

A Missouri school district is now making its math curriculum more gender inclusive, updating word problems and other language-based math equations with "they/them" pronouns. As presented in a Webster ...

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, ...

One of my first vivid memories of math is of timed tests. I still remember how visceral my panic felt–sweaty palms, heart pounding–as I scrambled to recall facts before the clock ran out. You might ...

Throughout history, simple formulas of fundamental constants symbolized simplicity, aesthetics and mathematical beauty 2. A couple of well known examples include Euler’s identity e iπ + 1 = 0 and the ...