Quantitative literacy, the ability to interpret numerical data in the context of everyday life, is increasingly important, says Bernard L. Madison, a professor of mathematics at the University of ...

Key Takeaways ・A UC San Diego report reveals a significant spike in freshmen requiring remedial math classes, with the need ...

Scale factors describe how much a shape has been enlarged (made larger). Enlarging by a scale factor of 2 means that each side of the shape has been multiplied by 2. All the sides double in length and ...

The Poincaré conjecture has been in the news lately. Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman submitted a proof 3 years ago claiming that he had proved the famous conjecture. In August, he won a ...

Math anxiety can be explained, at least in part, by genetic factors, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. There’s been plenty of buzz on the topic ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2016), pp. 1-26 (26 pages) Abstract As the only province having achieved significantly above the Canadian average in ...