Lisa Ashe, and expert in math education, says North Carolina is on the right track to improve students' math scores.

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

Fox’s lecture, and the accompanying colloquium he’ll present on March 11, are part of his three-day appearance as the William and Marjorie Blackwell Scholar-in-Residence program. The program is named ...

DeepMind, the Google AI R&D lab, believes that the key to more capable AI systems might lie in uncovering new ways to solve challenging geometry problems. To that end, DeepMind today unveiled ...

This Math Carnival event will feature hands-on games and activities for 3rd - 8th graders selected from exceptional math and numeracy organizations. At tabletop “carnival” stations, volunteers will ...

PDFs with accessible mathematics have reached a practical turning point. For the first time, complex equations embedded in PDF documents can be navigated, spoken, and rendered in braille by assistive ...

It’s been a while since most of us sat in a math classroom, right?This quiz takes you from Grade 1 basics all the way to serious school-level problems - and it’s tougher than it sounds. There are 36 ...

Finger-counting is a key "stepping stone" to higher math ability for youngsters, say scientists. Children who count on their fingers between the ages of four- and six-and-a-half years old have better ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

A key reform passed this year banks heavily on cementing math basics for lower grades — before the work gets harder.

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...