A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and ...

There’s something about maths brain teasers that keeps the internet coming back for more. Perhaps it’s the thrill of solving ...

Question sparked debate and confusion, with one user stating they were "honestly shocked" this was being asked of a ...

Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis ...

The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch. Besicovitch introduced the idea that a Kakeya set moved into a ...

It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

The latest national test scores show that Maryland’s K-12 students are performing below average in math. Maryland’s fourth and eighth-grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest ...

The Maryland State Board of Education has voted to change the way math is taught in the state. Under the plan approved by the board, math curricula in the state’s 24 public school systems would ...