Students who take calculus, trigonometry, or advanced statistics late in high school are delving into the sort of mathematics that many of their teenage peers aren’t likely to encounter until college, ...

Girls and boys learned math at similar rates. As they interacted with math videos, girls and boys drew on the same areas of the brain known for their association with math ability. Boys did not have a ...

Rick: Your recent book draws on what you’ve learned about math while building Zearn. So, let’s start with: What is Zearn? Shalinee: Numeracy is one of the best predictors of a child’s success. Yet, it ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misspelled two names. J. Shipley Newlin Jr. is the director of physical sciences, engineering, and math at the museum; Justin Burgher is a 7th grader who ...

The Virginia Department of Education is looking to revamp its mathematics curriculum through the Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative. (Courtesy Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative) The ...

Milena Cuéllar has been a professor of mathematics, engineering and computer science at LaGuardia Community College, part of the City University of New York, since 2012, teaching college statistics ...

A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...