May is almost here, bringing warmer weather and various holidays, such as Mother's Day, Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo. While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year, ...

Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for May 29, 2026 – Chonkers, the Steller sea lion, departs Pier 39 K-dock for Stinson. The post Math Puzzle for May 29, 2026 appeared first on Alameda Post.

Math has a bad reputation. Numbers are not glamorous, and those of us that never mastered the language of math try to forget the trauma of failed tests and endless erasure marks on worksheets. But the ...

New University of Delaware alumna Jenna Paltenstein gravitated toward mathematics early, her love for the subject already evident in elementary school. When she got to UD, she took advantage of all it ...

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

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...