Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...

One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

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The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

Pitici, a teacher of math and writing at Cornell University, continues the series he has edited since 2010, collecting another wonderful variety of mathematical writings, this time with a distinct ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do you integrate writing in math classes? All teachers these days are supposed to be literacy teachers, including math educators. Yes, students need to read word ...

Will Consagra, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, will be reading a few of his creative writing samples at the upcoming Undergraduate/Faculty Reading Series at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the ...

Writing about music, the saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. The implication is that even trying is futile and likely to make the person doing so look absurd. The line has been attributed ...

Oregon elementary teachers and students rose to the challenge of meeting tougher reading standards last school year, but middle schools showed little improvement and high school performance was dismal ...