One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

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Will Consagra, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, will be reading a few of his creative writing samples at the upcoming Undergraduate/Faculty Reading Series at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do you integrate writing in math classes? All teachers these days are supposed to be literacy teachers, including math educators. Yes, students need to read word ...

There’s a story making the rounds on social media—if you haven’t seen it yet, you will soon—about a funny dad in Ohio who wrote a check to his kid’s school “using Common Core math.” Have a look for ...

I feel for my students when I hand them their first essay assignment. Many are mathematicians, students and teachers who chose to study mathematics partly to avoid writing. But in my mathematics ...

Writing about music, the saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. The implication is that even trying is futile and likely to make the person doing so look absurd. The line has been attributed ...