Try selling this to typical school-age kids as a fun family outing on a warm summer day: Let’s go do some math! Ironically, no sales pitch seemed necessary to draw the nearly 4,000 visitors to the ...
It's no secret that math is a subject many find challenging, possibly even intimidating. Too often, we hear both adults and students openly proclaim themselves as "bad at math," stating they "just can ...
Eureka! a U.S. museum devoted to mysteries of math An "Enigma Cafe" offering "food for the mind, not the body" NEW YORK — At last count there were more than 17,000 museums across the country — not ...
Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Even more concerning is that ...
In an effort to deepen relationships with math by changing the way math is experienced, the Carson City School District, students and teachers (in partnership with Mind Research Institute) will host ...
Catherine Good has experienced stereotype threat herself, although she didn’t know it at the time. She started her academic career in pure math, expecting to get a Ph.D. But somewhere along the way ...
Dan Finkel runs Math for Love with his wife, Katherine Cook. They have developed two games: Tiny Polka Dot: A math-enriched card deck for 3- to 8-year-olds. “It’s really flexible,” Finkel said. You ...