Students are heading back to school and university next week but many may be feeling nervous about tackling mathematics, thanks to its fearsome reputation. Parents can help by not vocally dreading the ...

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: If you’re the parent of a school-age child these days, you’ve probably noticed that math is taught differently now compared to the way it was taught twenty or thirty ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A meeting of the minds at Columbia College revealed a gap in the math field. A group of professors, mathematicians, scientists, and students gathered to share their research and ideas ...