Math is often the most challenging class in a student’s course load. But it doesn’t have to be. Follow these tips to prevent ...

At the end of the program's first year, some 60 percent of students will have to repeat the subject in high school. But ...

In education, few issues have stirred more debate in recent years than when middle and high schoolers should take algebra.

The new state budget would require public schools to allow students to leave class for an hour a week of religious ...

Thirty-eight Portland elementary and K-8 schools will blend classrooms across at least two grade levels next fall, up from 13 ...

Some Anne Arundel County middle schoolers will spend more time in math class next academic year amid a pilot program. The initiative will launch at Arundel, Corkran and Wiley H. Bates middle schools, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

About two dozen second graders sat on the carpet at the front of Jacquelyn Anthony’s classroom, reviewing how to make tens. “Two needs eight!” the students yelled out together. “Six needs four!” “The ...

Mathematics be a tricky subject, and many students struggle to get the hang of it, finding it difficult to solve problems and equations in class. It requires a special sort of attention that one can’t ...

More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class had gotten a 4.0 grade average in high school math. One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...