ClarksvilleNow.com

Local teacher, APSU grad student’s new book uses riddles to combat math anxiety

What started as a 50-point class project has become a published tool for changing how students think about mathematics.
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. “I am the next ...
Purdue University

Want to improve your child’s math skills? Read them a book.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Parents can improve their preschool child’s math skills by reading specially designed math picture books to them, according to a new study at Purdue University. Early math ...
Quanta Magazine

New Math Book Rescues Landmark Topology Proof

Michael Freedman’s momentous 1981 proof of the four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture was on the verge of being lost. The editors of a new book are trying to save it. One of the most important pieces of ...
The New York Times

Can Math Be Violent? For 3 Scholars, the Answer Was Yes.

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...