Elementary school teachers in this country, by and large, are generalists. That means they’re required to teach everything—math, science, language arts, history, you name it, regardless of how ...

Would students take a stronger interest in math if they knew that an ancient African bone (from 20,000 B.C.) might be one of the world’s oldest known counting tools? Or that the work of Muslim ...

Five-year-olds can reason about the world from multiple perspectives simultaneously, according to a new theory by researchers in Japan and Australia. Using an established branch of mathematics called ...

Students applying to the state university system will have to have four math courses and will be required to take math their last year in high school under new admissions requirements passed Friday by ...

SAT test scores for 2009 were released today by the College Board, and the male-female gender gap for the mathematics test increased to 35 points to the highest level since 2004, reversing the ...

Facing protest over their choice of a new elementary school math textbook, Palo Alto school administrators have invited parents to observe lessons being taught from the disputed text and have posted ...

Danica McKellar, known for her role as Winnie Cooper on “The Wonder Years,” graduated summa cum laude in mathematics from UCLA and has published two books, “Kiss My Math” and “Math Doesn’t Suck.” Here ...

Colorado’s fourth- and eighth-graders performed better than most of the country on a national mathematics test given earlier this year — a strength state education officials hope will get stronger as ...

The National Science Foundation is giving $1.5 million to a San Diego-based program that's trying to get new math teachers into struggling schools. Math For America San Diego secured the grant. The ...

California’s hottest new math teacher is an animated penguin named JiJi. Yes, it’s true. A mute, waddling, tuxedo-clad cartoon figure has been quietly taking over math programs dotting Silicon Valley, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Math hasn’t always been thought of as a girl thing. For decades, boys in ...

You have a burning thought on the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function or a hankering to work on Yang-Mills theory. Or maybe an irrepressible inkling about quadratic residues is on your mind.