Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...

About 15 percent of students transitioning to secondary school struggle with higher-level mathematical concepts — Knec data.

Bringing elementary students outside for math lessons provides a welcome change of pace and a chance for new activities.

In the waning months of Eric Adams’ first term, NYC is pushing for big changes to middle school reading and math. Will they ...

Liam Starnes, from Barrington, Illinois, faced off against Bob Callen, from Lexington, Kentucky, and Maja Vlajnic, from ...

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and ...

You can get in touch with Jack by emailing j.beresford@newsweek.com A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math seems to ...

Kenya’s education ministry announced in March 2025 that mathematics would be an optional subject in ... For the new curriculum, however, this should not have been a problem as it is competence-based.

The Maryland State Board of Education has voted to change the way math is taught in the state. Under the plan approved by the board, math curricula in the state’s 24 public school systems would ...

He recalled a common Japanese math problem known as tsurukamezan, which translates as the “crane and turtle calculation.” The problem states: “There are cranes and turtles. The count of ...

As part of the selection process, he posed a fundamental mathematics question, typically taught in Class 5: "If a car travels the first 60 km at 30 km/h and the next 60 km at 60 km/h, what is its ...