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

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

Believe it or not, highway numbers actually make sense. Here's the logic behind odd and even routes, and why the system isn't ...

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 ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

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

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

Lorna Romero Ferguson of Elevate Strategies and Sam Richard of Consilium Consulting joined The Show to talk about the ...

Officials say they’re “finally seeing the payoff” after years of reading and math reforms. Altogether, Alabama schools earned a record score of 87 on the state report card this year. And lots of local ...

Unfortunately, many fruits and vegetables also contain the flavanols’ natural enemy: polyphenol oxidase, or PPO. You already know this compound, even if not by name – it’s the chemical that causes ...

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