Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in its full sense—draws on everything a person has been able to learn.

Shalosh B. Ekhad, the co-author of several papers in respected mathematics journals, has been known to prove with a single, succinct utterance theorems and identities that previously required pages of ...

University of Warwick provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. University of Lancashire provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. There is a widespread perception that ...