"I'm bad at Japanese, but I'm okay at math.""I can do calculations, but I get stuck on word problems.""Won't they catch up ...

When it comes to teaching math and science, is the grass always greener across the Pacific Ocean? I'm working with educators to help prevent students from hating math before they even know what it is.

Hello, I am N, a Kyoto University student. As autumn deepens and the weather gets colder, it is easy for 11th graders to ...

Japanese students remain among the top in the world according to the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, which surveyed youth from 65 countries and regions. The science and ...

When teams of Georgia educators met to discuss how best to revise math education in their state, they agreed to look east for inspiration—the Far East, that is. Obscured by all the debate over the ...

I recently visited two large bookstores in Tokyo, Japan, to cover the local math culture, and I couldn't help but be amazed. While bookstores in Korea have at most two or three shelves for math books, ...

A new compilation of the illustrated geometry problems that decorated shrines in seventeenth-century Japan provides puzzles that are still intriguing today, finds Peter J. Lu. At the beginning of the ...

HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back to Defense Department students gathered Thursday to learn about the Japanese abacus, or soroban, at the Tsukazan Community Center ...