Preparing future math teachers to teach data science

When Eric Weber, professor and chair of mathematics at Iowa State University, talks about data science with future math ...

They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...
Education Week

Do Future Teachers Have Math Anxiety? Their University Instructors Think So

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...
Orange County Register

Cal State Fullerton future teachers use coronavirus issues to develop lessons

Future math teacher HyeIn Choi and her classmates took a novel approach to developing math lessons by integrating real-world issues related to the coronavirus pandemic. “We want students to see how ...
Education Week

Universities Are Teaching Competing Math Philosophies to Future Teachers. Why That Matters

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...
Futurism on MSN

College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science

"We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics." The post College ...
Inverse

The biggest sci-fi show of 2021 reveals the real science of predicting the future

Psychohistory is “the destiny of the human race expressed in numbers.” In Foundation, an Apple TV+ series loosely based on the books by Isaac Asimov, psychohistory is the use of mathematical models to ...
The Conversation

Future teachers often think memorization is the best way to teach math and science – until they learn a different way

I found that college students who are taking courses to become teachers can change their beliefs of how science and mathematics should be taught to and learned by K-12 students. To challenge my ...