On math skills, students in Washington are lagging kids in 14 other states, making this the moment for our top education official to show leadership.

Grandville’s elementary school leaders are excited about their new tool for teaching math, called Illustrative Mathematics.

The viral math problem has X users stumped - but the answer comes in lessons learned in fifth or sixth grade.

Bill Rollins Jr., 97, wrote and self-published 'Trisecting an Angle,' to try to share his solution with the world.

Robust skill-building and reinforcement of key mathematical concepts lie beneath the excitement of these games.

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Philanthropist and billionaire heiress Liz Simons, who donated $250,000 to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, a PAC supporting Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, oversees a foundation that is reportedly ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...

Tech companies like Amazon are rumored to pose challenging math problems during interviews. A viral YouTube video explores a tricky math problem allegedly used in an Amazon interview. The problem ...