Dr. Marlene Tromp, President, Boise State University: Mark Becker, the president of the APLU, was in town to recognize Boise State for having the greatest student success program in the country this ...

The Racial Justice in Early Math project aims to educate teachers and provide resources to help educators combat racial bias in math instruction. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

When Deandre Pointer appeared in front of a Jackson County judge in June 2023, his world was bright. After years of protesting his innocence of murder charges and failing to convince any court, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

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Math has a terrible reputation. Many people are convinced that math is either boring or too difficult. Fortunately, young children aren’t jaded—yet! Math learning doesn’t start with numbers on a ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. Roughly half of middle and high schoolers report losing ...

Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say. Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

Math anxiety affects roughly 25 percent of students, which can prevent them from learning and taking more advanced mathematics courses. Fear around the subject can include being in a math class, ...