Your June 28 editorial on math education (“The ‘Why’ of Math”) certainly hit one nail on the head: This country is in serious need of math teachers with solid math training. It’s not enough to have ...

AUSTIN — Texas school children should not use calculators until they learn to work through math problems the old-fashioned way — on paper, State Board of Education members said Thursday. The board ...

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The Smarter Balanced test group announced today that it has partnered with Desmos, a company that created a free online graphing calculator that is giving Texas Instruments a run for its money. As of ...

OK, class — pull out your smartphones, please. It's not the conventional way to begin math class, but neither is Sara Van Der Werf's calculator alternative at Minneapolis South High School. Instead of ...

If you want to successfully navigate high school and college math classes, make sure you buy a graphing calculator. More advanced graphing calculators may come with additional features that can make ...

Young people these days live most of their lives online, so why shouldn’t they be plotting graphs and performing advanced calculations there as well? For the first time this spring, students taking ...