We asked Strogatz — a 2023 top award winner of the National Academies’ Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications — about his love of math, where it shows up in his ...

The latest Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program test results indicate that nearly half of Maryland’s elementary and middle school students cannot read proficiently, and more than half are not ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 7,037,960-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Quick hits What it’s about: Lots of things! We often come across Wikipedia articles that ...

Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

The Bronx is learning — at least in charter schools. Students from charter schools in the borough’s poorest neighborhoods, including the South Bronx, excelled on state reading and math exams — with ...