Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education — and may be just as controversial.

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up ...

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

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In Jennifer McDougald’s classroom at Jerger Elementary, solving a math problem is only part of the lesson. The real impact ...