Some math teachers find themselves confronted by students who ask, "Why do we have to learn this?" or "When am I going to use it?" These are vexing questions for sure, and one suggestion might be to incorporate the...

Dan’s Math Cast is a series of mathematics-related podcasts created and recorded by Daniel Bach, a mathematics instructor at Diablo Valley College, and co-author of the textbook Prealgebra, Mathematics for a Variable...

Data analysis can often feel intimidating to K-12 students, especially those with math anxiety. To help instructors engage young learners with scientific data analysis, researchers at Michigan State University's W.K....

Desmos is perhaps most well-known for their free, online graphing calculator (see the 01-10-2013 Scout Report). The company also offers Desmos Classroom: a collection of free, interactive, online activities for...

Mathematics educator Dan Meyer, who holds a Ph.D. in Math Education from Stanford University and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of California, Davis, blogs about teaching math on dy/dan. Meyer has authored...