In second grade, I stopped being able to do math. One night I went to do my long-division homework and I couldn’t figure it out. My mom demanded that I sit with my math teacher because my sudden ...

In the past 20 years, parents have taken to heart public-awareness campaigns urging them to read to their children every night. But math initiatives have not gained as much traction—even as emerging ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

This post is by Jeff Heyck-Williams, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Two Rivers Public Charter School, Washington, D.C. A few years ago, I left an interview with an elementary school candidate ...

Growing up on the set of the television series The Wonder Years meant actress Danica McKellar, 43, spent her school years in a nontraditional way. “I’d go back and forth between regular school and ...

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past. By Steve Lohr In the school year that ended recently, one class of learners stood out as a seeming puzzle.

Earlier this month, Barbara Oakley, engineering professor at Oakland University and author of “Learning How to Learn" published an opinion piece called "Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She'll Thank ...

Charlotte Rea was a whiz at math and Ryan Switzer needed some help in his business calculus class. Both were students at Auburn University and friends suggested that Charlotte tutor Ryan. One night ...

Pro football player and MIT doctoral student John Urschel may represent an unusual combination of abilities and interests, but he told an audience of math students and faculty at the University of ...