When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times by Sol Garfunkel and David Mumford stressed that what we really need is "quantitative literacy" among the general population, or the ability to make ...

Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...