Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Among high school students and adults, ...
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Our Schools Have a Problem: Textbook Math Doesn’t Help in Real Life — and Vice Versa
For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...
It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...
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Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short-term results but different long-term outcomes
Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...
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