This post is by Sarah Strong, Ninth Grade Math ... number score on a test as a simple indicator of mathematical worth, the students’ identities were formed by opportunities that they took to use ...

But math can be tricky, and sometimes the numbers don’t add up ... I would never urge anyone not to use math. But if you do, make sure to check your work. We are still collecting responses ...

Now, that term applies to just about anything that requires a lot of interaction to make things ... a very large number of relatively simple systems which you can specify using mathematics ...

As the WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math concepts more clearly than English, making it easier for small children to ...

When people give me their phone number, I can make ... words are shorter. Could this explain why Chinese students have lately (in Singapore and Shanghai) jumped to the top of international teenage ...

But many math educators also use word problems that move beyond these ... and answer this question with 6.5, but that number doesn’t make sense, said McNeil—you can’t have half a bus.

This is not an isolated event—schools across the country regularly ban finger use ... numbers, symbols and words—but schools are not encouraging this broad development in mathematics now.

The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel ... To list both words together, as in a textbook, would make no sense to them whatsoever.

A Missouri school district is now making its math curriculum ... be represented in "word and contextual" problems via the pronouns, alongside regular gendered people using he/she pronouns.