Lindsey Henderson hopes to change the conversation about math in her state. As student math performance declined in Utah and states across the nation over the pandemic, most learning-recovery efforts ...

Teachers can help ease the anxiety that many students feel with these strategies for creating joyful learning experiences.

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

Math instruction is changing — and for the better, says Nancy Pfaff, a Lake Washington School District teacher who has won a prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science ...

People all across the U.S. claim that they are “not math people.” They even readily admit to their hatred for some math fundamentals, such as fractions. For instance, a participant in one of our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to factors that affect a student’s well-being in adulthood, better math skills might not be the first thing that ...

There’s a familiar divide between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, the views from inside and outside the schoolhouse are very ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis claims that math is only about “getting the answer” – and that math curriculum should contain nothing but rote memorization. But as a medical professor for several decades, I can ...

Melissa Davis told her second-grade class a math story about butterflies and bees. Then the children took out cubes and figured out how many more butterflies there were than bees. The concept these ...

Mathematicians are working to bring quantum field theory (QFT) into mainstream mathematics. In this illustration, three exotic particles called “anyons” circle around each other in a process called ...