PHILADELPHIA — Every statistic tells a story. Those stories can be simple, complex, incomplete, even seemingly contradictory at times, depending on how the numbers are tracked and presented. The story ...

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...

At CU Boulder, students have several math courses to choose from, based on their intended major. While some courses do not require a prerequisite or prior math experience, others will require a math ...

Record numbers of U.S. students severely struggle with math, but only a fraction of them receive screening and support targeting potential math disabilities. While math teachers in a nationally ...

Student Lila Conley works on a calculus problem during the Bridge to Calculus summer program at Northeastern University. Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign ...

Speak positively about math and reward effort rather than grades or ability. Think about how important reading is and how we are told to model this behavior for our children. We need to place math in ...

Young children trust math advice from men, even when it is wrong. A new study from Rutgers University–New Brunswick found that children aged 5 to 7 were more likely to accept incorrect math ...

Numerical estimation, a foundational math skill for children, can be negatively influenced with wrong answers from male teachers, Rutgers researchers find The findings suggest that early gender ...

(upbeat music) - Good morning, boys and girls. It's Dr. Sanders back in the region's largest classroom. Here to teach a little ELA and Math for my pre-K kindergarten students. But like I always say it ...

The Boulder Valley School District is looking for ways to provide more equitable access to advanced math classes, as well as improving math instruction overall. “Regardless of what school you are in, ...

Young children are more inclined to believe incorrect math information from men than accurate information from women, according to a Rutgers University–New Brunswick study published in the journal ...