After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

With Red Deer's fire academy program, high school students will get hands-on, practical skills that could land them a job — and potentially help bolster the ranks of firefighters in rural Alberta.

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

From the perspective of a math educator, this is not a minor abuse of statistics but a failure of epistemic responsibility, one that undermines the possibility of public reasoning itself. Mr. Trump’s ...

Harvey C. Mansfield, who retired in 2023 after 61 years on the Harvard faculty, is the best lecturer I’ve ever heard. When I was in graduate school two decades ago, attendance in his courses routinely ...

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Florida State University's Department of Mathematics is hosting its 11th annual Math Fun Day. The free event is open to the public and will be held on Feb. 7 at the Love Building on FSU's campus.

Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows for sure — but if they can, a team of scientists argue they may have spotted evidence of ...

Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the most effective way to address it, many teachers struggle to deliver this level of ...

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

THE DANISH word hygge suggests a cosy state of relaxation that comes from open fires, woollen socks and hot chocolate. These days, though, some Nordic defence strategists think that only nuclear arms ...