In seventh grade, a teacher told Evelyn Silvia she was the best math student he ever had. "My recollection is that I was sort of average in math in grades K-6. But from that point on, that teacher ...
OceansideOceanside — In 1975, Mohammed Rajah was hired as the first full-time math professor at MiraCosta College. Four decades later, he’s still teaching every morning at the Oceanside campus and has ...
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg math professor Kayla Heffernan won a national award for creating a college algebra textbook that uses a teaching method called guided inquiry. But Heffernan, 33, ...
LA GRANDE — More than five decades ago, Eastern Oregon University math professor Patty Sandoz, then a senior at Springfield High School, feared she was an accidental imposter. Sandoz was among six ...
April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month—a time to celebrate teaching math, which can be, as experts say, a “hard sell.” I spoke with Sean Nank, a professor of teaching and learning at the ...
Professor Paul Sally Jr., a pioneer for mathematical education, died last night, according to the chair of the mathematics department. He was 80 years old. The announcement came from mathematics ...
John Milnor remembers arriving at Princeton University in 1948 as an introverted, "rather socially maladjusted" freshman who had a hard time making friends. But he soon found a home in the Math ...
A short excerpt from the >10,000-word Jensen v. Brown, decided yesterday by Ninth Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon, joined by Judges Richard Paez and John Owens: Plaintiff Lars Jensen, a math professor at ...