Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Math is not everyone's favorite subject—it can be frustrating and tedious when equations seem to come from thin air and ...

It sometimes seems like there is a pre-medical student everywhere you turn at UAB. Pre-meds are one of the most motivated (and sleep-deprived) groups of students on campus. The pre-med curriculum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ longstanding ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deidre Kelly. It has been edited for length and clarity. This is my 14th year teaching sixth-grade math, and I enjoy it just as much as I did when ...

Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...

I admittedly have very few skills when it comes to math. My second grader can run through long, complicated equations in his head, and I can barely wrap my mind around the new way they are teaching ...

The humanities deserve public support. Democracy depends on it | Oct. 26 Gratitude to David Newheiser for his fine guest column about the humanities deserving public support. I was a mathematics ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. When I was 12, my ...

More than half of U.S. states now recognize that their traditional approaches, including math tracking, often advantage an elite few while overlooking the needs of the broader student population.

Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence. By Alexander Nazaryan Artificial intelligence can write a ...

Deidre Kelly is a mom of three and has taught 6th-grade math for 14 years. She turned to TikTok to keep her students engaged during remote learning. Now, she has more than 1 million followers, many of ...