A former student sent me a copy of Ramsey Campbell’s column “Old math, New Math, how ’bout just plain phooey on math,” in the April 25 edition of the Lake Sentinel. Opinions are like noses — we all ...

Hot take: I love mathematics. From basic addition to multivariable calculus, learning and discovering the intricacies of how math works is absolutely fascinating. My late grandmother was a mathematics ...

CHICAGO — As a high-school algebra teacher, the most common question I got from students was: "Why do we have to learn this? When will it ever matter?" I had to answer this same question in a "Methods ...

But, both of these would require large structural changes for a course that teaches hundreds of students a year — something that can’t really happen in the near term. What could happen now, though, is ...