Have you ever wondered whether mathletes can go pro? Since 1959, the answer has been “yes” – with the height of achievement ...

LETTER: Dave Romenesko writes that M-Step proficiency in reading and math should improve to better prepare students for jobs ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

While most states have graduation rates between 80-95%, math proficiency is most often below 50%. (There’s a wide range in ...

For Sarthak Dassarma ’26, mathematics isn’t a set of rules to memorize—it’s a story, and the Putnam Competition is just his ...

Grades offer a snapshot of performance, but they rarely capture the full picture of a student’s understanding. Hidden gaps, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Chad Aldeman’s March 16 op-ed, “When high school grads can’t do math,” focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore. There is no discussion of inputs, namely the resources needed to ...

Education experts will tackle Harrisburg’s crisis in a live roundtable Tuesday, exploring what it takes to turn around one of ...

On Thursday, March 19, more than 100 local elementary, middle and high school students will visit Carnegie Mellon University’s campus for one reason — to voluntarily take a math test. For these ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...