Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

CHAMPAIGN – Students in Champaign schools next year will take their first look at geometry in kindergarten. "Understanding Geometry" is one of three new books to be purchased for kindergarten students ...

Stellar athletes, successful entrepreneurs, and motivational speakers like to say that pressure makes diamonds. The higher the stakes and the harder the circumstances, the thinking goes, the more ...

Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

There’s a line from the original Star Trek where Khan says, “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold.” Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron ...

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Researchers in France and at Harvard University have found that isolated indigenous peoples deep in the Amazon readily grasp basic concepts of geometry such as points, lines, parallelism and right ...

Every curricular area has a global dimension that can be taught in the classroom, including math. This is often the area that is most difficult for people to grasp as being global, but math helps us ...

The crow stared at the screen, as it had many times before. Six shapes appeared. Five were neat, balanced, regular; one was not. The crow tilted its head, paused, and tapped the odd one out. A chime ...

(Kitco News) - The way Mark Sebastian sees it, pilots have to understand the concept of what makes an airplane lift off before they are allowed to fly. Likewise, traders should understand the ...