by Ana Hirschi | Oct 5, 2020
Imagine yourself sitting in your high school math class. As your teacher is speaking, another student raises his hand to ask a question, and he and your teacher start having their own back-and-forth dialogue about an equation that has been written on the board. Lost...
by Mitch Rogers | May 3, 2018
Like all math teachers, Professor Kate Johnson of the Mathematics Education Department studies variables. The variables that Johnson examines, however, usually don’t show up on the page. Johnson researches how math teachers understand personal and social identity and...
by James Collard | Jan 18, 2018
In the summer of 2014, BYU alum Linda Furuto sailed across the equator in a canoe. The canoe—a traditional Polynesian voyaging vessel named Hōkūle‘a—was manned by 13 crew members and navigated entirely using the wind, stars, and God’s other creations for guidance....
by CreelaBelle Howard | Nov 7, 2017
It’s an old story that’s resurrected every few years when an international assessment of math publishes its results: The U.S. students are trounced again by the students from several East Asian countries. Some even dismiss these studies all together after a popular...
by Mitch Rogers | Sep 18, 2017
What do BYU, mathematics, and voyaging canoes have in common? Dr. Linda Furuto. CPMS’s upcoming Honored Alumni Lecture will feature Dr. Furuto of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Her lecture, entitled “Voyaging Around the World with Christ as My Navigator and...
