NEW: Public Comment Window for K-12 Mathematics Standards and Content Connectors Committees of K-12 and postsecondary mathematics educators convened to recommend updates to the Indiana Academic Standards and Content Connectors for K-12 Mathematics. The draft standards and content connectors are available for public comment now through 11:45 p.m. ET on Friday, August 7. Stakeholders can access and provide feedback on the draft standards and content connectors via this Jotform. This input will be used to refine standards, and final recommendations will be presented to the Indiana State Board of Education later this year. Please contact IDOE's Office of Curriculum and Instruction with questions.

Fields Medal 2026: Leaked Names Reveal a Century of Math Solved at Once → read it here Four days before the International Congress of Mathematicians opens in Philadelphia — the first U.S. congress in more than four decades — a front-end coding error on the ICM website exposed schedule entries marked “HIDDEN,” revealing the four probable winners of math's most prestigious prize: Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang. What makes the cohort remarkable is not the leak but the ledger: between them, they resolved the Kakeya conjecture (open since 1917), the kinetic-theory portion of Hilbert's Sixth Problem (posed in 1900), the André-Oort conjecture in arithmetic geometry, and foundational problems in symplectic topology — several of mathematics' longest-running open chapters, all closed within a single four-year window. If the list is confirmed at Thursday's ceremony, Wang becomes just the third woman to win the medal, and she and Deng become the first Chinese-born mathematicians ever to receive it. CREATIVE FORCE: It's tempting to read four once-in-a-generation results as four lone geniuses striking at once. The truer story is more interesting: this is a generation that grew up on each other's preprints, built on each other's tools, and closed problems the previous generation left open — creativity as a relay, not a lightning strike. That's a powerful reframe for our classrooms and research groups alike. The mathematics our students inherit is not a finished cathedral but an active construction site, and the drama of this week — leaks, prediction markets, a boycott, a ceremony — is a reminder that mathematics has stakes, personalities, and stories worth telling out loud. _______________________ Mathematicians Are Closing In on the Hidden Order Inside Chaos → read it here

In my conversation with Dr. Pamela Seda, we talked about two definitions of success in a math classroom. Most kids can tell you which one they've been handed. The first is speed. Right answer, quickly. Under this one, a student who struggles learns something specific about herself: she is not a math person. The second is reasoning. Sticking with confusion, building an argument. Under this one, struggle isn't a verdict. It's the work. Dr. Seda has spent thirty years watching systems say they want the second while running entirely on the first. And when math runs on speed, it stops being a subject and becomes a filter — a machine that sorts children into smart and not-smart, early, while wearing the costume of numbers. That's not a pedagogy debate. It's a moral injustice. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-kinds-smart-dr-kevin-berkopes-wxduc/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3B5dqHgc0bRoWzPnbG99ZBaA%3D%3D

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She was the rookie teacher of the year. Her kids loved coming to her classroom. Seventeen years later, she'll tell you those same kids probably still hate math. "I was the tier one problem," Phonisha Hawkins told me. "I didn't know that I was the problem." Here's what should stop you: the system worked exactly as designed. It certified her. It awarded her. It put her in charge of teaching mathematics to children. And none of it told her why keep-change-flip works. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teacher-loved-dr-kevin-berkopes-m5abc