Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

When studying to become a math teacher, many teachers-in-training are taught to use concrete, real world examples to help illustrate mathematical concepts. New research, published in last week's ...

You all know the score. A train leaves one city travelling at 35 miles per hour and another races toward it at 25 miles an hour from a city 60 miles away. How long do they take to meet in the middle?

We’ve been taught that living systems are incredibly complex and diverse. However, there are clues that processes exist to tame these systems’ and sustain the robustness of life. Using novel ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

When Nicole Thomson first heard about the importance of teaching spatial reasoning and geometry in her kindergarten math curriculum she had already been teaching for several years. Her teacher ...

Mathematics Concepts In Cricket: All sports include the application of mathematics and sciences, be it to predict outcomes, determine playing conditions or in the play itself. The centuries-old game ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov., 1974), pp. 197-211 (15 pages) The effects of negative instances on the acquisition of the mathematical concepts of commutativity and ...