During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in ...

Last week's Points section featured an essay by Andrew Hacker, a political science professor emeritus at City University of New York, on why schools should ditch algebra as a universal requirement.

“Math might seem like it’s about getting the right answers, but really it’s about the process of discovering,” according to this invigorating philosophical take on the field. Mathematician Cheng (The ...