The first time Richard Wong stood in front of a lecture hall of hundreds of students, it felt like a performance. “It was kind of scary to be like, ‘Here’s a class of 210 students. Teach them ...

If terms like “multiplication tables,” “long division” or “coefficient” tend to jack up your blood pressure, you’re not alone. Millions of people have an aversion to math. Mallika Scott, Cal State ...

An Iowa professor is expanding what it means to understand mathematics — not just for students, but for those who teach it.Dr. Abby Rocha, an assistant professor of mathematics at Central College in ...

Bates professors know that many first-year students can feel vulnerable, lost, and isolated. Those feelings, while normal, can deny students what they came to college for: the collective joy of ...

Few North Campus students are ever seen in a math classroom. Even fewer enjoy taking math classes so much that they start attending them for fun. So when first-year comparative literature student Hero ...

A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...

Tim Wagner is the recipient of Michigan Technological University's 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award in the Assistant Professor/Assistant Teaching Professor category. Tim Wagner is an assistant ...

An Iowa professor is expanding what it means to understand mathematics — not just for students, but for those who teach it. Dr. Abby Rocha, an assistant professor of mathematics at Central College in ...

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Lipscomb Academy's Pat Wood named The Tennessean's Teacher of the Week for math instructors.

Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...