Ask a child to name his favorite class, and odds are you’ll hear two letters: P.E. Ask an adult which subject has been most valuable in life, and the most popular answer turns out to be math. That’s ...

More than 15 years after its publication of influential national standards in mathematics, a leading professional organization has unveiled new, more focused guidelines that describe the crucial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE -- Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have ...

Algebra is the most failed course in community colleges across the country, according to reports. The California Community College System is now straying away from abstract algebra and focusing on ...

Next year, my son will likely graduate high school without taking calculus, the most advanced math class offered. Like many teens, he completed Algebra 1 as an eighth-grader, and while he earned a ...

Jesse Schell is, perhaps, the top educational game designer in the business right now. A few months ago I asked him what his favorite educational game was. After a brief pause, he replied, “DragonBox ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Azure Garrett, a fourth-grade teacher at Leadership Prep Canarsie, a charter school in Brooklyn, New York, works with student ...

Chau Duc Tran, a 25-year math professor, will head a new project for Coastline Community College beginning this fall. Tran will teach math to Vietnamese students in their own language. The program ...