At MIT, professors grapple with how to teach students to communicate about numbers in clear English. When course requirements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shifted 10 years ago, faculty ...

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In The Atlantic's ongoing debate about how to teach writing in schools, Robert Pondiscio wrote an eye-opening piece called "How Self-Expression Damaged My Students." In it, he tells of how he used ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do you integrate writing in math classes? All teachers these days are supposed to be literacy teachers, including math educators. Yes, students need to read word ...

One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

The fourth volume in this unique annual anthology offers plenty to interest even the most math-phobic of readers. Pitici, who teaches mathematics and writing at Cornell University, has selected 20 ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Awards for the year's best mathematics writing were given on July 27 in Chicago by the Mathematical Association of America at MAA MathFest, one of the largest gathering of ...

Writing about music, the saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. The implication is that even trying is futile and likely to make the person doing so look absurd. The line has been attributed ...