On the heels of a “Back to Basics” reading effort, New York is launching a similar initiative for math.

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Manjee: Students use screens only for end-of-lesson check-ins — giving teachers real-time info about who's on track and who's ...

Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand own ership types, Rust’s core mechanism for ensuring memory safety without garbage collection. This paper describes our process of systematically ...

It is possible that you, in the 21st century, were never taught how to teach handwriting in any of your education courses—I know I wasn’t, and that was 50 years ago. In my early days of teaching, I ...

In the R programming language, the de facto standard framework for drawing rectangular coordinates is ggplot2. The most important feature of ggplot2 is that it is object-oriented and uses the plus ...

iDaVIE is a data visualisation tool for 3D volumetric data, with analysis tools aimed at astronomical data in particular (e.g. spectral line data cube analysis, such as HI or CO data cubes). It ...

Math captivates some students, but for many others, the subject can feel hopelessly abstract, boring, or downright nerve-wracking—especially if students have trouble visualizing possible solutions or ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a ...

Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a mathematician astray. Early evidence might not represent the bigger picture ...