Believe it or not, highway numbers actually make sense. Here's the logic behind odd and even routes, and why the system isn't ...

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

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

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

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

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

Binary is a number system that only uses two digits, \(0\) and \(1\). It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming, so it is ...

UW-Madison associate dean claims American education system and mathematics are "inherently violent" toward Black students in ...

DPI says the proposed new math standards will help make the courses more meaningful for students in life after high school.

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...