No matter their subject, the finalists for the 2026 National Teacher of the Year make their communities central to their ...

Students from across northwestern Wisconsin filled the DeLong Middle School auditorium Thursday to show off their math skills.

While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

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

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Walk into many school district offices today, and you’re likely to hear a troubling narrative: They don’t have enough effective math teachers to support their students. New research from the ...

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Students in Illinois, like their peers nationwide, tend to score lower in math than they do in reading and writing. The trend has been consistent for years, leading some to question whether it’s due ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...