Students, like Miriam Cooper, working a problem at the Smartboard, participate in math problems in Dana Snapp's class at Fuquay-Varina Elementary School. Students there have been using Common Core ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Beginning this academic year, the Applied Mathematics Graduate Program will join the Math Alliance Graduate Program Group (GPG). The Math Alliance was created in 2001 as a collaboration between the ...

Students across the country were struggling with math before the pandemic, but the COVID-19 disruption caused their scores on national exams to plummet to historic lows. The struggle is resurfacing an ...