At the University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ‘ times zero equals zero.” Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — In a world where children spend more time than ever on devices like iPads and laptops, Ector County ISD is transforming that screen time into valuable learning with a new math ...

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 ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

Could connecting artificial intelligence with math concepts boost students’ attitudes toward the subject? A research project from the Concord Consortium aims to find out. The nonprofit educational ...

Q: Our 10-year-old son has struggled with math at school and complains about it a lot at home. We worry that our daughter, a third-grader, is picking up from him the idea that math is hard and boring.

Student host Arise helps us have fun with…math! We learn characteristics of triangles by making shapes with our bodies, discover strategies to help us learn math, create a mathematician on the go, get ...

When I decided to read every word of California’s 1,000-page proposal to transform math education in public schools, I learned that even speculative and unproved ideas can end up as official ...