The poor scores given to US math students who took international skills tests might result from poor teaching rather than uninterested students. After elementary school, most of the math classes I ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics urged schools Tuesday to place less emphasis on paper-and-pencil computational skills and to spend more time teaching students to solve practical ...