Of five major content areas covered in math classes — numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, data and statistics, and algebra and functions — teachers are putting a bigger emphasis ...

This film discusses the concept of functions in mathematics, emphasizing their importance and modern formulations. It explains how to create ordered pairs from a set of numbers and illustrates how ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Jan., 2010), pp. 3-19 (17 pages) This study is part of a project concerned with the analysis of how students work with two-variable functions. This ...

Mathematics is often thought of as a subject that a student either understands or doesn't, with little in between. In reality, mathematics encompasses a wide variety of skills and concepts. Although ...

Some scientific discoveries matter because they reveal something new — the double helical structure of DNA, for example, or the existence of black holes. However, some revelations are profound because ...