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 ...

In math professor Brian Macon’s class, his Valencia College students are allowed to pull out their calculators for half of the test. At the University of Central Florida, that piece of technology is ...

For the lowest level courses, get the model you will eventually need in a later course (e.g., a student in MATH 1100 who will eventually take MATH 1160 should get a TI-83/84, but a student in MATH ...

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, ...