Late last month, over 400 high school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day conference, titled “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education and Social ...

MORE than 400 New York City high-school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn late last month for a three-day conference on “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education ...

THERE’S a fifth column in New York City’s public schools – radical teachers who openly undermine Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s curriculum mandates and use their classrooms to indoctrinate students ...

A quiet revolution is brewing at the University of Chicago. There, a team of seven educators is hoping to overhaul the way math is taught in the United States.The U. of C. School Mathematics Project, ...

Core-Plus, used in Bethlehem’s high schools, and Connected Math, used in middle schools, don’t rely on the formulas and rote computation of traditional math courses. Students work in small groups, ...

From incorporating rap into lessons to using the “Hejný method,” educators are increasingly looking for creative ways to make math more interesting to students and more applicable to “real-world” ...

Computerbasedmath.org-- the radical mathematics education reform organization -- has its first guinea pig: Estonia. Computerbasedmath.org was founded by Conrad Wolfram, the brother of Stephen Wolfram, ...

Bob Moses became famous as one of the chief organizers of the Freedom Summer of 1964, when hundreds of college students invaded Mississippi to fight nonviolently for civil rights. But Moses was also a ...

Imagine a 13-year-old in a low-income community who describes himself this way: "I'm a math literacy worker. I speak math. I do math. I work with math." His name is David and he's part of a second ...