We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our ...

In his freshman algebra class in Coal City, West Virginia, Caleb Miller’s teacher one day paused the usual work with ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education.

NCAE is expecting thousands of educators and public education supporters to join Friday’s “Kids Over Corporations” march in ...

Throughout the Sixers' first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics, we've been talking about a math problem: Three ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when math scores nationwide are already at a dismal low.

KENT — When she was teaching middle school math, Tracy Drinkwater accompanied her students on field trips. She went on field trips with her own kids, too. But they were never math-related. “That’s a ...

I’m a math teacher. The Secretary of Education’s fun with numbers is embarrassing. The Secretary of Education released a 155-page “school report card” two weeks before Town Meeting Day. It frames ...

PAID ADVERTORIAL - That familiar feeling of dread can creep in around 7 p.m. on a school night. Your child slides a worksheet across the table, looks up with hopeful eyes, and asks for help with a ...

A Roosevelt International Middle School student takes a math enrichment class by computer at home in 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Unified School District) This story first appeared at The 74, a ...

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Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...