Few disciplines are as polarizing as math. Everyone seems to have an opinion about it, and those opinions usually veer toward love or hate. A new book argues that part of the problem is how we learn ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Playing number board games for just ten minutes helps young children build strong early math skills supporting economic ...

If you go to the Washington State superintendent’s website, you will find a curriculum for the Seattle Public Schools that has been implemented this year — the “K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework.” I ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

New math and social studies materials are on the way for Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 middle school and elementary students following the Board of Education’s approval of two curriculum updates ...

The purpose of the Math Placement Assessment (MPA) is to make sure that students begin their mathematical studies at UD in a course for which they are prepared and in which they can succeed. In that ...

North Carolina lawmakers could overhaul high school math requirements and make it mandatory for students to pass a U.S. history test to get a diploma. The N.C. House voted 69-43 on Wednesday to pass a ...

While optimists see the ongoing International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Beijing as a sign of China's nearing the top of the global mathematics class, several leading mathematicians have ...