Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Teach math as puzzles for kids to solve. That’s more fun than memorization

To the editor: Math classes should be eliminated and replaced by another recess period. In other words, if mathematics or arithmetic was taught as puzzles to be explored and as a fun activity instead ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Math can be hard and abstract. That’s not a reason to teach less of it

To the editor: The piece by Jo Boaler and Steven D. Levitt reveals a blinkered view of what mathematics is and how it gets used in real-life problems such as data analysis. Data analysis and ...
Yahoo

Letters to the Editor: Higher math is everywhere. But should UC require all applicants to learn it?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student takes notes during a lecture in a college algebra class. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: As a ...
Education Week

Editor’s Note: Teaching Math in the Era of COVID-19

With each passing day, the coronavirus pandemic is rerouting some students’ academic trajectories. That’s among the many frightening but realistic consequences of COVID-19. And an early look at ...
Education Week

Common-Core Math Testing: Using an Equation Editor

Some math experts are worried the computer-based testing platforms that PARCC and Smarter Balanced plan to use for common-core tests this spring will make it tough for students to show what they know, ...
Oregonian

Letters to the editor: Math curriculum concerns, criticism

I consider myself a fairly advanced mathematics student, but I must say, a recurring problem in the Beaverton School District's "reform" math is lack of challenge ("X plus why equals division," Jan 12 ...
Crain's Cleveland Business

Letters to the editor: Math adds up for Ohioans' health and economic future

Regarding the Personal View article in the April 20 issue, "Math doesn't add up for stay-at-home orders," imagine if COVID-19 were a defective product known to be dangerous, would the aggregate of the ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Editor’s Calculation in Starting New Math Journal Divides His Editorial Board

After holding onto accepted manuscripts for more than a year, the managing editor of a mathematics journal has announced he will begin a competitor, according to the new issue of Nature. The editor, ...