Earlier this year, [Dan Maloney] went inside mechanical calculators. Being the practical sort, [Dan] jumped right into the Pascaline invented by Blaise Pascal. It couldn’t multiply or divide. He then ...

When I took calculus at night school with three nerdy high school friends, graphing calculators did not exist. Johns Hopkins University mathematics professor Stephen Wilson is happy for me. He says ...

Unlike on the SAT, the use of a calculator is permitted throughout the entire math portion of the ACT. While it is best to avoid calculator use for certain problem types, test-takers should maximize ...

Your June 28 editorial on math education (“The ‘Why’ of Math”) certainly hit one nail on the head: This country is in serious need of math teachers with solid math training. It’s not enough to have ...

Tianhui Michael Li and Allison Bishop are right in pointing out that students graduating today need better statistics training than they did a generation ago (“Calculus Is So Last Century,” op-ed, ...

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There is no avoiding the constant chatter about AI these days. Really, it’s been months. As a math teacher, this struggle over new technology feels oddly familiar. More than 30 years ago, the National ...