Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — In a world where children spend more time than ever on devices like iPads and laptops, Ector County ISD is transforming that screen time into valuable learning with a new math ...

A high school student is tutored in algebra. Tutors and teachers report that more students struggled in the course this academic year. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - Algebra 1 is the most failed class in high schools across the country. At Green Mountain High School in Lakewood, a student-turned-teacher, who failed Algebra himself, is ...

Pi is undoubtedly the world's most popular irrational number. And that's because it's unequivocally cool — I mean, what other mathematical constant has its own day? On its face, pi is a simple concept ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

At the University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ‘ times zero equals zero.” Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the ...

From the TikTok feeds that brought you girl dinner comes girl math: a strategy for justifying large or unnecessary purchases. The calculations behind girl math aren't new, but the way we talk about ...

My daughter is here for Christmas Break (and god dammit I miss her a lot) I'm in Los Angeles and she is a Freshman in Texas. We are planning her High School Math curriculum and she is doing rather ...

The problem with social media in-jokes is they don’t stay funny for long. Someone takes them too seriously, then they become overblown commentaries on society as a whole, and then a media outlet goes ...

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...