Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

These four classroom shifts can make academic risk-taking feel safer, clearer, and more worthwhile for middle school students ...

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NORWALK — As Apostoli Mano marched toward the front of his school’s library, he smiled ear to ear, waving to his mother who took pictures and proudly cheered him on. The fourth-grader was one of 55 ...

Grid-in questions, or student-produced responses, account for about 22% of the 58-question SAT math section. As opposed to multiple-choice questions, where the correct answer is always one of the ...

The journal Science's "breakthrough of the year" for 2006 is the solution of a century-old math problem. The story behind the solution is quite a soap opera. It includes a Harvard math wizard, a ...