Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

A new guide from the Center on Reinventing Public Education explains the divisions shaping the “science of math” — as well as ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education — and may be just as controversial. Senate Bill 1067 would require schools to ...

While most states have graduation rates between 80-95%, math proficiency is most often below 50%. (There’s a wide range in ...

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

You’re never too old to learn something new. People are losing their minds over how simple — yet tricky — an elementary school-level math equation posted on X (formerly Twitter) is. Over the weekend, ...

Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...

American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and rapidly accelerated in the wake of the pandemic. Almost 4 in 10 eighth graders scored ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

UW-Superior hosts annual high school math meet, drawing students from across Wisconsin and Minnesota to compete in challenging problem-solving competitions.

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