For 23 years, I’ve taught high school math. And for 23 years, I’ve been told by people that they either are a “math person” or they are not. I get it: Math isn’t easy. Movies and TV shows make it look ...

As a teacher, I heard it all the time: “I’m not a math person.” I would be in line at the grocery store, wearing a math T-shirt one of my students got for me, and I’d hear it: “Algebra? Who needs it?” ...

Research shows a clear link between students’ postsecondary success and the highest level of math they took in high school. Credit: Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

There’s a familiar divide between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, the views from inside and outside the schoolhouse are very ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

From the way we treat the environment to the way we think about poverty, our discomfort with numbers tilts the equation in favor of the privileged. Credit: Getty Images. Just as all roads once led to ...