Collaboration can’t just be assigned—it needs to be nurtured, and students can learn to assess their progress in building ...

Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring, nearly all ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...