The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ ...

The study tested Plato’s classic ‘doubling the square’ problem, where Socrates shows a boy how to double a square’s area ...

A typical 8th grade math textbook includes just a handful of real-world problems for students to solve, finds a new international study. And that’s not enough, according to William Schmidt, ...

White boys from disadvantaged backgrounds who do well at primary school are the most likely to see maths potential ...

Two programs for teaching mathematics in the early grades—Math Expressions and Saxon Math—emerge as winners in early findings released last week from a large-scale federal experiment that pits four ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have ...

A study of Nashville high-schoolers exposed an alarming disconnect between Black girls and mathematics, one that might explain their lack of confidence in the subject—and why they don’t see how it can ...

An international team of authors led by Ilka Agricola, professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg, Germany, has ...