Many students walk into their first year of college calculus with nervous anticipation, bracing for a whirlwind of equations, integrals and derivatives. However, for students taking calculus with ...

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 ...

A key instructional shift called for by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics is the dual emphasis on conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. NCTM draws a connection between these ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a question that comes up every now in then. But I would like to ask a few similar questions with my first order approximation answers. I would love to hear some other ideas on these questions.

*Originally published on May 11, 2022. Give Jordan Ellenberg a number and he'll tell you its square root. It's a party trick he used to do in college. The mathematician is a child prodigy. He scored a ...

(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 ...