Ancient pots decorated with a dainty floral pattern may be hiding a much deeper secret: the origins of mathematical thought.

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

Helena Osana receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié ...

The kind of mathematical thinking that children entering first grade are capable of, if they have manipulative materials to support their thinking, is of interest to those who design and sequence ...

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

“I like the way you’re thinking,” Birnie said, pausing beside a student who was asked not only to write an answer, but also to demonstrate how it was found. At another desk, she stopped to help a ...

These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. In a post-Covid world, we can no longer ...

Mathematical thinking is crucial in all areas of computer science: algorithms, bioinformatics, computer graphics, data science, machine learning, etc. In this course, we will learn the most important ...

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 – ...