A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Explore the etymology of Greek numbers, their origins, meaning, and their influence on mathematics and ancient Greek culture.

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...

Nearly 1,000 UCSD freshmen test into elementary school math despite stellar high school grades—a crisis 30 times worse than ...

During D.C. Public Schools’ Family Math Night, parents got a firsthand look at how to help their students with math concepts ...

Test-blind admissions, grade inflation, and mandated admissions from underrepresented high schools are destroying higher education.

A new faculty report painted a grim picture of the math and writing skills of the first-year class at one of the nation’s ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

UCSD is no slouch in the college rankings: U.S. News and World Report pegs it as the sixth-best public university in the ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...