A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

Math as both profession and course of study can be a hard sell, something even Don Draper might have trouble pitching. The field unites numbers, theories, and ideas that, yes, can be physically ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Teaching elementary school math just got ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with ...

A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...

(Editor's Note: This story has been altered. The original version of this story gave the wrong percentages for the students who passed the math portion of the WASL last spring.) Rick Burke remembers ...

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