As nine students cluster in a semi-circle in Gail Younie’s cozy summer school classroom at Stephensen Elementary in Southwest Portland, the baggies full of brightly-colored two-dimensional Styrofoam ...

Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. “I’d be at a party, and I’d tell someone what my book was about, and then I’d be ...

While literacy is often seen as a cornerstone to scholastic achievement, and many parents devote a lot of time and energy into nurturing their small child’s love of reading, studies show that ...

In this video I show you how to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions by working through 52 different examples. I make ...

I remember my youthful days in high school and college, the constant struggle with math was a horrible experience. I came across this article on children who have trouble with math and it was as if ...

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The Seattle school district is planning to infuse all K-12 math classes with ethnic-studies questions that encourage students to explore how math has been “appropriated” by Western culture and used in ...