Elementary school teachers in this country, by and large, are generalists. That means they’re required to teach everything—math, science, language arts, history, you name it, regardless of how ...

Would students take a stronger interest in math if they knew that an ancient African bone (from 20,000 B.C.) might be one of the world’s oldest known counting tools? Or that the work of Muslim ...

Students applying to the state university system will have to have four math courses and will be required to take math their last year in high school under new admissions requirements passed Friday by ...

SAT test scores for 2009 were released today by the College Board, and the male-female gender gap for the mathematics test increased to 35 points to the highest level since 2004, reversing the ...

Five-year-olds can reason about the world from multiple perspectives simultaneously, according to a new theory by researchers in Japan and Australia. Using an established branch of mathematics called ...

Colorado’s fourth- and eighth-graders performed better than most of the country on a national mathematics test given earlier this year — a strength state education officials hope will get stronger as ...

So, yet another retreat on the math and science front in Washington state. The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction wants to replace the WASL, which it has found wanting, with a ...

California’s hottest new math teacher is an animated penguin named JiJi. Yes, it’s true. A mute, waddling, tuxedo-clad cartoon figure has been quietly taking over math programs dotting Silicon Valley, ...

Danica McKellar, known for her role as Winnie Cooper on “The Wonder Years,” graduated summa cum laude in mathematics from UCLA and has published two books, “Kiss My Math” and “Math Doesn’t Suck.” Here ...

Math scores among Spokane County’s largest public school districts fell slightly on the WASL since last year, according to results released Friday. “The math was not required for graduation, so they ...

On Saturday, Jan. 10, 80 intermediate school students met for the 20th annual Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District Math Field Day. Students from Miraleste Intermediate were coached by George ...

You have a burning thought on the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function or a hankering to work on Yang-Mills theory. Or maybe an irrepressible inkling about quadratic residues is on your mind.