The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

Milena Cuéllar has been a professor of mathematics, engineering and computer science at LaGuardia Community College, part of the City University of New York, since 2012, teaching college statistics ...

An 11-year-old Ridgeview student’s idea became a math club that placed in the top 10% nationally in its first year of ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

Students in Years 1 and 2, the equivalent of kindergarten and first grade in the U.S., prepare for a math lesson at St. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand. Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger ...