Cecilia Lopez Alvarado passed high school math with A’s and B’s. But in college, she effectively had to start over. Here’s ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our ...

The key to improving math outcomes isn’t a new program — it’s transforming how teachers understand and teach the subject.

Ancient DNA reveals women brought farming knowledge to hunter-gatherer communities in Belgium and Netherlands gradually.

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students' individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

European genetic research offers surprising insights into who lived along the Roman frontier as the empire fell and Germanic ...

Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...

This study provides valuable insights into the role of thalamic nuclei in associative threat and extinction learning, underpinned by a large dataset and rigorous, multipronged analyses. The evidence ...

Three seemingly unrelated things happened in the last few weeks. Artemis II circled the moon, my cousin died, and my student successfully defended her senior honors’ thesis. How could these three ...