Writing about music, the saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. The implication is that even trying is futile and likely to make the person doing so look absurd. The line has been attributed ...

Writing research papers allows researchers to contribute to the scientific record, and is critical for advancing their careers. To ensure that the findings they have invested so much effort in makes ...

What teacher isn’t on the lookout for new and effective instructional strategies? In this multipart series, educators will share their “nominations” for those teaching strategies that can be effective ...

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Teaching writing and mathematics in the same course leaves Ruth Starkman considering the way humanities and mathematics students approach problems. Everything would have been perfectly ordinary that ...

In an attempt to attract more freshmen to theoretical mathematics, the math department expanded its offerings this school year. Last fall, it introduced the MATH 60 “Modern Mathematics: Discrete ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do you integrate writing in math classes? All teachers these days are supposed to be literacy teachers, including math educators. Yes, students need to read word ...