Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

Theoretical mathematician Lauren K. Williams is the second woman in Harvard’s history to get tenure in the math department ...

Hundreds of sixth graders are enrolled in an Algebra I class, a high school course Fairfax County Public Schools is expanding access to through a pilot program this year.

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond visits Burbank Elementary to highlight how Spanish-speaking students are ...

Education in Illinois shows promising areas of growth but remains hampered by high costs and stagnant proficiency rates, a new report says.