Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A seemingly simple math problem that produced markedly different answers on a calculator and a phone has left the ...

I’m seated at my fake-wood desk in Ms. Glaser’s second grade classroom. My yellow #2 pencil is newly sharpened and the timer is set. Begin! 60, 59, 58….I shout the problems in my head: “five plus 8” ...

How is math education different now from, say, in President Abraham Lincoln’s day? A new online exhibition sheds light on math’s long history. The exhibition is a collaboration between the National ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Math is hard for most. And for decades, math attrition has been a challenge in education, including higher education. While new knowledge has been discovered in the field of ...

Recently, the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) at the California Department of Education decided to postpone the release of the controversial and ideological 2021 Mathematics Framework to ...

sMALDEN (CBS) – MCAS results from the 2021 spring exam were released Tuesday and they show an expected learning gap due to the disruption from the pandemic. "Results show that many more students had ...

Hungarian mathematician László Lovász, an emeritus professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and co-recipient of the prestigious 2021 Abel Prize in mathematics, is renowned for his work ...

A rush to calculus leaves some students behind in California Commentary: One district’s faulty data shouldn’t drive California’s math policy Thus, San Francisco Unified developed a new math course ...

Ruef, who has a doctorate in mathematics education, is an assistant professor of mathematics education at the University of Oregon. Elliott, who has a doctorate in curriculum and instruction, is ...

After enacting a controversial bill mandating ethnic studies in high school, California is set to consider a woke math framework sometime in the new year. Surprisingly and importantly, key opposition ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...