Mathematics and writing might seem worlds apart, but literacy in both subjects might need some improvements when they come together. Whether you love math or find it challenging, incorporating writing ...

When course requirements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shifted 10 years ago, faculty members in the mathematics department found themselves with a new task in their job description. Not ...

Will Consagra, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, will be reading a few of his creative writing samples at the upcoming Undergraduate/Faculty Reading Series at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the ...

A UC San Diego report reveals a significant spike in freshmen requiring remedial math classes, with the need increasing from ...

MATH 79SI: “Proof Positive: Principles of Mathematics” is a new student-initiated class that introduces students to basic mathematical proof-writing techniques. The one-unit class is designed to serve ...

In a session called “A Marriage of Math and Reading,” two ELA teachers and their math-teacher husbands described the beginnings of a collaborative research study on the effects of incorporating ...

In The Atlantic's ongoing debate about how to teach writing in schools, Robert Pondiscio wrote an eye-opening piece called "How Self-Expression Damaged My Students." In it, he tells of how he used ...

A new faculty report painted a grim picture of the math and writing skills of the first-year class at one of the nation’s ...

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 ...

A new report by the University of California, San Diego found freshmen are nowhere near ready for college math and writing ...