Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class are multitude.

Mathematicians around the world have expressed their belief that a discussion on the overseas bulletin board 4chan may solve a difficult problem called ` `The Minimal Superpermutation Problem,'' which ...

A 16-year-old boy has apparently solved a difficult mathematical problem that took over 300 years to solve. When his teachers first saw the notebook containing the formula, they couldn't believe it ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...