Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dani Di Placido covers film, television, and internet culture. You might have seen the term “Boy Math” thrown around the internet ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

Many college students struggle with math anxiety, which can slow their progression toward a degree or impact their choice of program of study. Some colleges and universities have sought to decrease ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

In an AP poll, over 1/3 of adults polled about school year math experiences indicated that they “hated” math in school. In fact, math was twice as despised as any other subject. Even if math was not ...

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets ...

The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...

North Carolina is working on a major overhaul of its math standards that state officials hope will better connect what ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...