Nearly 1,000 UCSD freshmen test into elementary school math despite stellar high school grades—a crisis 30 times worse than ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Almost 30 years ago, a group of Kaktovik students invented a numbering system that reflected the way they counted in Iñupiaq and made math more intuitive for them. Soon, anyone in the world will be ...

Other UCs are tracking similar trends, but UC San Diego’s problem is “significantly worse,” the report states.

The natives of a remote Polynesian Island invented a binary number system, similar to the one used by computers to calculate, centuries before Western mathematicians did, new research suggests. The ...

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