Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

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Algebra and Number Theory are cornerstones of modern mathematics. At their heart, these fields study the underlying structures governing numbers and abstract entities, ranging from rings, fields, and ...

At the playground on the leafy campus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, one afternoon in May, the mathematician Akshay Venkatesh alternated between pushing his 4-year-old ...

The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

Can young children learn mathematics? What is the best way to teach them? Herbert P. Ginsburg, a developmental psychologist at Teachers College, Columbia University, has been studying those questions ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Math can’t catch a break. These days, people on both ends of the political spectrum are lining up to deride the ...

ASVAB mathematics is a difficult area for many, but with patience and logic, it can be easy and even (gasp) enjoyable! "Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the ...