General introduction -- Beginnings : mathematics of bones -- Geometry south of the Sahara -- Numbers -- Beginnings of written mathematics: Egypt -- The Maghrebian tradition -- Combinatorics and ...

School mathematics in South Africa is often seen as a sign of the health of the education system more generally. Under the racial laws of apartheid, until 1994, African people were severely restricted ...

MONROE, La. (KTVE / KARD)–Rotena Hicks Russell has seen a lot of change in her 87 years of life, a large portion of it as an educator. She was a young professional during the civil rights era, a time ...

A University of Massachusetts Lowell professor has received a Fulbright grant to help South African teachers incorporate indigenous cultures into high school math classes, officials said. Iman Chahine ...

South Africa has been struggling with mathematics education for quite some time now. It seems that something is always going wrong, and the students are not being taught what they need to know. In ...

Something still seems to be missing in teaching mathematics. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images It’s a problem because mathematics is the bedrock for the development of scientific reasoning.

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...