About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had ...

A mathematician is blowing plenty of minds on TikTok, thanks to her example of just how confusing high-level math is. But in a recent viral video, she explained just how, even for people who ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a genius!” they reply. Or ...

Want to help your seventh-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom in seventh grade. At a “25% Off” sale, Marissa buys a skirt for $40.50. What was ...