Burleigh: Are students being equipped with a genuine understanding of math concepts or merely trained to follow steps?

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Provincial governments can improve math outcomes, but reforms must be guided by evidence and by leaders willing to change course. Too often, governments ask the people who created the problem to fix ...

Ohio's Senate Bill 19 would prohibit teachers from leading math instruction until they meet a minimum standard.

Taback, the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, was announcing the visit of John Urschel to campus. Formerly an ...

Remember seeing your triglyceride levels in your lab report? Ah! Fats you may dismiss, thinking of the next gym work you need to head to. Fatty acids are broken down via a process called β-oxidation.

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

In 1925, German physicist Werner Heisenberg published a paper on quantum mechanics, upending classical physics and launching the world into the quantum age.

Across the United States, the numbers are moving in the wrong direction. National exams that once showed slow but steady ...