“I’m just bad at math” is a phrase I adopted early in my school career. A straight-A student who filled endless notebooks with observations about the world around me, the way numbers were presented by ...
The 74 shares insights from math education experts about the societal tendency to classify kids as "bad" or "good" at the subject instead of normalizing accommodations and tutoring. Math education ...
Across the nation, kids are heading back to school. It’s an exciting time. I remember both the joy and the nervousness that came with my now twin 13-year-olds' first starting school. In fact, one day ...
Does math make you a little nervous? You're in the majority. The phrase "number anxiety" was first coined by researchers back in the 1950s. By some estimates, as high as 93 percent of Americans feel ...
Being ‘bad at math’ is a pervasive concept. Can it be banished from schools? Math education leaders have long said children should not be labeled “bad at math,” even if they struggle mightily with the ...