Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Modern math problems don’t tend to have the kind of answers that trip off the tongue. Perhaps it’s a brand-new proof that takes a few pages’ worth of words and diagrams to explain properly, or an ...

Superman may be able to fly, and Spider-Man may have Spidey Sense, but Jim McClain has an even more unlikely superpower. He gets kids to enjoy math. On a Thursday afternoon in late May, McClain stood ...

Good news! A computer has solved the longstanding Erdős discrepancy problem! Trouble is, we have no idea what it’s talking about — because the solution, which is as long as all of Wikipedia’s pages ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them.

This article is the first of a three-part series adapted from an essay written by Dr. Alex Berezow, which is now archived at Suzzallo Library's Special Collections at the University of Washington. In ...