The discovery of what some viewed as disturbing illustrations in books for elementary school students set off a national furor.
Tag: Mathematics
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I Just Want My Kid to Learn Algebra. Does That Make Me a Culture Warrior?
Americans still underperform in math. That, not debates about testing and social emotional learning, should be our focus.
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A Look at the Textbooks Rejected by the Florida Department of Education
The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why.
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Introducing WordleBot, the Upshot’s Daily Wordle Companion
It will tell you how skillful or lucky you were, and it could help improve your results.
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Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers
In the 1970s, Jack Dongarra created code and concepts that allowed software to work easily with the world’s most powerful computing machines.