Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

On math skills, students in Washington are lagging kids in 14 other states, making this the moment for our top education official to show leadership.

U.S. students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and rapidly ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up ...

The parent believed the question was poorly written and should have been multiple choice if limited responses were desired.

Three HISD students will get $100,000 of resources, mentorship and community as they aim to become the next generation of ...

Do you know your geometry from your arithmetic and your fractions from your logs? Let’s find out! Think of this as a math class without the quizzes, where every problem has a twist solution, every ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

The calculator on your Apple devices can do more than add, subtract, multiply and divide. Here's how it can help you with all kinds of math problems. ICE arrests leader of Iowa's largest school ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...