Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ...

A decades-old geometry puzzle has finally been solved by a young mathematician in South Korea. Hidden behind a simple hallway ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.

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A simple 2+2 problem became a paradox when real-world context intervened, sparking Kareem Carr’s debate on definitions and axioms. Carr and others show how context bent arithmetic, such as angles ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person ...

Test your SAT math knowledge with this quiz. This challenge is inspired by the SAT-style math, designed to test your problem-solving and quantitative reasoning skills. From ratios to algebra, geometry ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...