Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been endless discussion on how to protect the public. In the beginning, we didn’t know much about this new virus. Now, many months later, our ...

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 ...

Birds of a feather flock together, without knowing anything about the mathematics of pattern formation. Or maybe they do. Who knows what goes on in bird brains? A more interesting question, though, is ...

Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. At stake are hot-button ...

Twenty states consider Algebra II a high school graduation requirement, but about half of those allow for exceptions or alternatives, such as data science courses. Credit: Meredith Kolodner/The ...