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Research from the University of Chicago offers new evidence for the link between math anxiety and avoidance—as well as possible paths toward breaking that connection. UChicago psychologists found that ...

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Phyllis Simon, the Conway School District’s first director of technology, remembers being the only female in a college graduate calculus class in the 1960s. Times have changed — but not ...

Pacing among work stations in her eighth-grade mathematics class at Southwest Middle School, instructor Kari Abelseth reached into two separate cups and withdrew a random Popsicle stick from each one.

But that era has drawn to a close—Oxford University professor Andrew Wiles is receiving math's highest prize for finally unfurling the elusive problem and solving it.

Ly, 28, has been teaching for six years and currently teaches sixth grade at Wolf Canyon Elementary School in Chula Vista, where his focus is primarily on math.