There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

One math textbook was approved by the state after a review process showed pictures portrayed Blacks primarily as athletes. Another, under the same vetting process, was flagged because it put an ...

To explain its puzzling rejection of dozens of textbooks, the state released 6,000 pages of comments, revealing an often confusing and divisive process. By Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul It was the ...