Ask a Scholar: Touching Spheres
May 23, 2012 by Brody Dylan Johnson, Vera B. Koutsoyannis |
A bowler asks: what is the area of the space between two touching spheres? Mathematically, it is a point and has no area, but what about in the real world?
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Socially Constructed Mathematics—That Will Make All the Difference!
Sep 26, 2011 by George Leef |
The University of North Carolina is hosting a professor from the University of Illinois who maintains that what “minority” students need if they’re going to understand math is for it to be presented as a “social… Continue Reading | 2 Comments >
Unnumbered
Aug 31, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood fears that a new proposal for improving science education will lead to even greater math illiteracy among high school graduates.
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Bias, Barriers, or Biology?
Mar 26, 2010 by Ashley Thorne |
Fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. Is this really the big problem AAUW would have us believe?
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Ed Schools Failing Math
Nov 17, 2009 by Ken Daniszewski |
Sandra Stotsky has an excellent article in City Journal discussing how our education schools are failing to deliver on math education - because they have become over committed to some progressive ideas about math education which… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Mathematical Deceptions
Feb 23, 2009 by Peter Wood |
A University of Illinois-Chicago professor of math education reminisces about his efforts to radicalize eighth-grade math students.
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Social Changelings
Dec 18, 2008 by Ashley Thorne |
Little PC men are coming after the hard sciences.
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