Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines that include recommending teachers stop quizzing ...

Marty told Newsweek he was baffled when his child's homework was returned with a series of "corrections" that didn't make ...

The new draft plan encourages schools to shift away from traditional methods for teaching math, such as memorization. It ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont educators are working on ways to boost student test scores, which national data this month indicates continue to decline. The Vermont Agency of Education has created a ...

CHARTIERS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum is giving kids a chance to get up close with some older modes of transportation. The museum is offering free admission for kids up to age 17 ...

Class is almost over—but instead of zoning out or packing up early, your students are hunched over their work, erasing, recalculating, and debating. The room buzzes with the rich math talk every ...

Baltimore — 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 original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...