Late last month, over 400 high school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day conference, titled “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education and Social ...
Computerbasedmath.org-- the radical mathematics education reform organization -- has its first guinea pig: Estonia. Computerbasedmath.org was founded by Conrad Wolfram, the brother of Stephen Wolfram, ...
MORE than 400 New York City high-school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn late last month for a three-day conference on “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education ...
From incorporating rap into lessons to using the “Hejný method,” educators are increasingly looking for creative ways to make math more interesting to students and more applicable to “real-world” ...
Can social and economic justice issues be integrated into mathematics curricula? Radical Math, Long Island University, and Math for America, a nonprofit founded by a Wall Street titan, James Simons, ...
THERE’S a fifth column in New York City’s public schools – radical teachers who openly undermine Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s curriculum mandates and use their classrooms to indoctrinate students ...
I want to begin a discussion of algebra by saying that too few children have any real understanding of the civil rights movement. Bear with me. When kids know anything at all, it is usually a kind of ...