For decades, scientists have tried to turn the question of alien life from late-night speculation into something you can ...

It’s easy to dismiss the Portrait of a Graduate phenomenon as a relatively innocuous exercise that will probably fade away ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

Mathematics, often termed the language of the universe, is a subject that fascinates as much as it challenges. As educators striving to illuminate the intricate beauty of mathematics, finding the ...

Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States Statistical learning—an unconscious cognitive process used to extract regularities—is well-established as a fundamental ...

Pi is undoubtedly the world's most popular irrational number. And that's because it's unequivocally cool — I mean, what other mathematical constant has its own day? On its face, pi is a simple concept ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get the latest news on NYC’s public schools. The ninth graders in Katie Carson’s Algebra I class had ...

Kenny Felder, a math teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, explains repeating decimals to calculus students in February 2019. Julia Wall News & Observer file photo State education leaders want to ...

State education leaders want to change how math is taught in North Carolina’s public schools to get more students interested in the subject. The state Department of Public Instruction is working on a ...

California has new guidelines for teaching math in public schools. The guidelines propose things like delaying algebra until the 9th grade. And offering classes like data science instead of advancing ...

Do you remember the days when 5+5=10? For parents who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, it was that simple. But now, as many of us help our kids with their homework using the new Common Core math ...

It would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too A bumpy road is ahead for California’s proposed new math ...