Students and community members gathered Saturday at Grand Valley State University to attend presentations during the annual Math in Action Conference. Charlene Beckmann, a mathematics professor at GVSU, has been the co-chair for the conference since 2007. Beckmann said the university continues to host the event every year because it provides an opportunity for both […]

The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper recently announced a new mathematical initiative to help students and teachers in Years 7 and 8, with further development in High School Mathematics. In this instance, Utah Middle School Math is not a traditional hardbound textbook. Rather, it is a series of “chapters” that can be downloaded, free of charge, by […]

Dan Meyer gives Maths Teaching (and learning) a new perspective at TED Talks. Today’s math curriculum is teaching students to expect (and excel at) a paint-by-numbers (formulae and fun- flavoured) classwork, robbing students of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. In his talk, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students […]