Cecilia Lopez Alvarado passed high school math with A’s and B’s. But in college, she effectively had to start over. Here’s ...

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

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge.

San Diego-area Assemblymember Akilah Weber Pierson wants to assign California educators some new homework: screening kids for ...

California is considering a new bill to change how math is taught in schools. Senate Bill 1067 would require screening for basic math skills in kindergartners, first-, and second-graders. The ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when math scores nationwide are already at a dismal low.

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

Across New York state, more than 1 in 4 schools don’t offer Algebra 1 to eighth graders. Stu ...

San Francisco is restoring eighth-grade algebra after more than a decade, with the San Francisco Board of Education voting 4-3 Tuesday night to approve the change, reversing a controversial policy ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

The San Francisco school board approved a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade after it was removed over equity concerns. By Dana Goldstein The San Francisco ...