My name is Jo Boaler. I am a mathematics education professor at Stanford University. I was one of five authors of California’s proposed new mathematics framework. Unfortunately, the debate about the ...

A California-based group is sounding the alarm as the state education department considers implementing a framework that promotes controversial ideas about race and mathematics. The "Pathway to ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 31, No. 1/2, Socio-Cultural Approaches to Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Sep., 1996), pp. 175-200 (26 pages) A variety of researchers in the last fifteen ...

This post was updated Jan. 6 12:00 a.m. From policing to the workplace, the push for social justice has reached across society. Among these issues is tackling racial disparities in math education. The ...

Students looking for more advanced mathematics than school provides will turn elsewhere to find it. While mathematicians and parents are bemoaning the newly adopted California Mathematics Framework, ...

Imagine a world with no math. No way to calculate your batting average or track your Twitter followers. Say it Ain't So! This kind of world may seem funny to many of us, but living without math skills ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The article investigates in the first part critically dyadic and essentialist understanding of signs and utterances in mathematics and ...

Mathematics continues to serve as a fundamental language through which scientific phenomena are deciphered and understood. Its ability to provide models that not only describe but also explain ...