The Central Board of Secondary Education has launched a Mathematics practice book for promoting critical thinking and problem-solving abilities in the students. The ‘Mathematical Literacy: Practice ...

A few weeks ago I (Jo Boaler) was working in my Stanford office when the silence of the room was interrupted by a phone call. A mother called me to report that her 5-year-old daughter had come home ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 31, No. 1/2, Socio-Cultural Approaches to Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Sep., 1996), pp. 175-200 (26 pages) A variety of researchers in the last fifteen ...

I’ll admit it: I was skeptical of how “creative-thinking” strategies in math would go over with my 4th grade enrichment students. I see these students just once a week in pull-out groups, so every ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. In a post-Covid world, we can no longer ...

The power of mathematical thinking lies in its ability to cultivate problem-solving skills essential for success in the 21st century. Mathematical thinking goes beyond memorisation of formulas and ...

Teachers need supported opportunities to practice instructional approaches with students with disabilities using research-informed pedagogies (NCTM & CEC, 2024) that draw from both the fields of ...

David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike other creative processes, like making music, which can be heard, ...

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Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing numbers. Despite this dedicated cluster, mathematical ...