The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with ...

Learning mathematics is much like learning a new language — it opens doors that were once closed. Rather than seeing ...

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...

In a post-Covid world, we can no longer assume that a student’s age and mathematical experiences line up in previously expected ways. Indeed, they may not even be close. It’s a tension that’s always ...

Math, as author and University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg writes, may not be the most readily accessible subject in school. When faced with a complex equation a student may ask, “When am ...

Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...