Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a new study shows. Researchers have found that discussion is important ...

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 ...

New York City is gearing up to change the way math is taught this school year amid rising concerns about students’ low math performance. The initiative, NYC Solves, will mandate the use of one ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would assess students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...