Includes updates and/or revisions. Two years ago, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign turned conventional wisdom on its head with a study suggesting that, once ...

Numbers, blocks, puzzles, rulers. Math is all around us every day. However, recent research by Suzanne Varnell, a graduate student in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family ...

Tom Robichaud ’27 put his engineering background to work tutoring New Haven middle schoolers in math. What drew you to this ...

The College Board recently released detailed data on percentile ranks by gender for the 2011 SAT tests, and data for the 2011 SAT math test are presented in the table and chart above. 1. For all math ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

This chapter examines this critical entry point into an academic career—and its components—with a primary focus on differences in hiring outcomes for tenure-track assistant professor and tenured ...

I remember the day in ninth grade algebra when I asked my math teacher the question most students ask: When would I ever use y=mx+b in my “real life?” He did not provide a compelling answer. Like many ...