If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this ...

I read the recent Reformer article about how many Minnesota school districts still haven’t recovered their test scores after ...

Washington's students' test scores have revealed startling results, with nearly one-third of students failing to reach basic ...

Numbers don’t just mark superstition. They also define achievement. Malcolm Gladwell popularized the 10,000-hour rule as one key to becoming world-class at something — whether it’s violin, coding or ...

Grandville’s elementary school leaders are excited about their new tool for teaching math, called Illustrative Mathematics.

I’m not a math person.” I would be in line at the grocery store, wearing a math T-shirt one of my students got for me, and I’d hear it: “Algebra? Who needs it?” I would ask the person if they’d ...

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Class is almost over—but instead of zoning out or packing up early, your students are hunched over their work, erasing, recalculating, and debating. The room buzzes with the rich math talk every ...

The math you thought you would never use again from school is back to haunt you. X users are in an uproar over an equation that @BholanathDutta posted. It appears as a simple equation, but the comment ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...