The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

In a Massachusetts school district, by 2021, after years of decline on the state test, only 12 percent of middle schoolers ...

School and district leaders have a lot to think about as they plan for fall instruction, in the wake of a spring semester decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. Two professional math-education ...

In mathematics, ubiquitous objects called groups display nearly magical powers. Though they’re defined by just a few rules, groups help illuminate an astonishing range of mysteries. They can tell you ...

After two years of pandemic disruptions to students’ reading progress, schools nationwide are scrambling for ways to help them progress faster. Small-group instruction in reading is one of the most ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education.

The Math 8806-8807 sequence will cover the following topics: Group Theory (Group actions, Sylow, Nilpotent/Solvable, simple groups, Jordan-Holder series, presentations); commutative algebra ...

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