Florida’s state education agency rejected dozens of math textbooks this past spring because, officials contended, they contained common-core learning standards or violated a state law that prohibits ...

A typical 8th grade math textbook includes just a handful of real-world problems for students to solve, finds a new international study. And that’s not enough, according to William Schmidt, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Nearly one month after a press release accused some textbook publishers of trying to “indoctrinate” Florida students by including critical race theory and other prohibited topics into ...

Racial prejudice and emotional learning are just two of the many "prohibited topics" cited as "impermissible" by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), which has announced why it banned 41 ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 82, No. 2 (February 2013), pp. 183-199 (17 pages) Curriculum documents for mathematics emphasise the importance of promoting depth of knowledge rather than ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In its review of 132 math textbooks that were submitted for consideration, the Florida Department of Education rejected 54, claiming they contain ‘prohibited topics’ such as ...

Micro-tutoring platform PhotoStudy has unveiled a new chatbot built on OpenAI’s ChatGPT APIs that can teach a complete elementary algebra textbook with “extremely high accuracy,” the company said.

Some Florida schools are finally getting to buy their math textbooks — two weeks after state officials rejected dozens of books on grounds they would teach “prohibited topics.” More textbooks have won ...

CARACAS, Venezuela – Students here study math by calculating the benefits of government land takeovers. They practice English by reciting where late President Hugo Chavez was born and learn civics by ...

In 2018, Petra Menz, a senior lecturer in mathematics, was facing a problem: the textbook for two required courses in the social sciences calculus stream was going out of print. Fueled by a desire to ...