Amid falling student scores and renewed debates about how the subject should be taught, math is in the spotlight once again. The pandemic, which affected student learning across the board, had ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Classroom teaching may be driving a gender gap in math performance, and the effect starts from the moment children begin school, a new study finds. The study, published July 11 in the journal Nature, ...

SAN ANTONIO — In a state that has passed anti-diversity laws and tried to squelch instruction on systemic racism, a new law could open doors for Latino and Black children long shut out of advanced ...

There’s a familiar divide between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, the views from inside and outside the schoolhouse are very ...

The Racial Justice in Early Math project aims to educate teachers and provide resources to help educators combat racial bias in math instruction. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

Mentor: Sarah Watt, Ph.D. There is a national crisis where student scores on state assessments are significantly declining. In 2019, less than half of eighth graders nationwide scored proficient on ...

Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college opportunities and even on their entire careers. The pressure to reach Calculus by a ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

A green logo with a hand cradling leaves sparked heated argument among State Board of Education members recently as they readopted key revisions to New Jersey’s K-12 math and English standards. After ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...