Within the last few years, it has become increasingly popular for educators, social scientists, and even politicians to question the necessity of an education in mathematics. In his popular 2016 book, ...

Mathematics majors study the relationships between numbers, structures and patterns. Their classes range from algebra to statistics, and the concepts build on one another. Students learn skills like ...

Many middle school students spend their summer breaks catching up on their favorite television shows, lounging with friends ...

Algebra has long been a fundamental part of any high school math curriculum. In many places it's become a fundamental part of the middle school math curriculum, too. In recent years, more students ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. I discovered recently that my calculus students do not know the meaning of the word “quorum.” Since a course in ...

University of California faculty and administrators have been debating a change to required courses that sounds like a small issue, but that should have the academic sphere asking these questions ...

Frederick County Public Schools saw small increases in Math and English Language Arts and particularly large spikes in its latest Algebra 2 and Geometry scores, according to 2026 MCAP results ...

Black students have been excluded from high-quality mathematics for generations — with dire outcomes academically and ...

Solving our national math problem demands a new formula written for the age of AI. This past school year, Cambridge, Massachusetts, placed every eighth grader in Algebra I. It didn’t go well.