(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Mathematics has always been one of the most challenging subjects for students of all ages. From simple arithmetic to complex ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. In June 1978, the ...

Math achievement scores have dropped, but some school boards are finding a teaching formula for student success ...