Pamela J. Wells, Understanding Linear Functions and Their Representations, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Vol. 21, No. 5 (December 2015/January 2016), pp. 308-316 ...

In 11th grade math, your child will learn about functions, statistics and probability and measurement and data.

He set out to understand functions, which are essentially mathematical machines that start with one number and produce another. Mathematical functions include x2 + 3 x + 1, and sin x, and ex.

A key instructional shift called for by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics is the dual emphasis on conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

Barbara Oakley, an engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., says the key to math expertise is practice, not conceptual understanding as common-core proponents would have ...

Taken very literally, not all students are created equal -- especially in their math learning skills, say researchers who have found that not fully understanding the "equal sign" in a math problem ...