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

A nontraditional math instruction strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, ...

A university report found a sharp rise in first-year students lacking high school math proficiency. At UCSD, where more than ...

A fourth-grader at a Utah elementary school says a problem on her math homework was offensive.The math problem compared girls' weights, KSTU reports.“I didn’t like that because girls shouldn’t be ...

Everyone agreed on the first step: Solve inside the parentheses, for 2+2=4. But after that, people split down two paths. Some multiplied first, while others divided, leading to different answers—1 and ...

To learn the geometric concept of transformations this year, Crystal Watson’s eighth-graders drew up blueprints of apartments. As they worked, she asked them to imagine designing affordable housing ...

"Regular" high school seniors in Australia faced an astonishing statistics problem in their exams. Math is having a high profile year, from common core to Australia's high school exit exams. The math ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...

In 2008, Daniel Spielman told his Yale University colleague Gil Kalai about a computer science problem he was working on, concerning how to “sparsify” a network so that it has fewer connections ...