Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to support students who struggle, expanding access to advanced courses in later ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Are high school students getting the preparation they need for college math? The question, long a focus of study in K-12 math education and policy, is now the subject of a Senate inquiry. Sen. Bill ...

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With the rise of AI, business leaders may be wondering: Is it time to outsource math to machines, freeing managers to do more managerial things? Harsha V. Misra is the founder of a private investment ...

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There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...