That conclusion doesn’t add up, at least for college students, according to a study in the June Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. On the contrary, people’s intrusive worries about math ...

A powerful state lawmaker is demanding that the results of controversial Math Regents exam be tossed out so 3,000 high-school seniors who flunked have a chance to graduate. “It is widely acknowledged ...

A recent Crimson article emphasized that, at least from the perspective of the Harvard Department of Mathematics, “talent in mathematics is identifiable at a young age,” thereby creating the picture ...

My father was a blue-collar man from his head to the tips of his work boots. He’d come home when I was in kindergarten, covered in soot, hair wild, grinning. Fridays brought big grins. Fridays meant ...

You probably haven’t had to do longhand math in years, but you do mental math every day. Or maybe you google math problems ten times a day, because you’ve forgotten how to do any math beyond your ...