Increasing teacher training in math subjects and mandating more classroom time for students are two of the ways the state can improve.

Strong spatial skills are critical for everyday tasks and across many careers—they also strengthen students’ math performance.

Short-term memory is finite and fills up quickly. Here are 7 ways we can free up space for clearer-headed mathematical thinking.

Children hold insights and wisdom in important parts of life that adults often lose, forget, or have to put aside in the service of other adulting tasks. Kids are often better at being fully immersed ...

A new undergraduate major in mathematics and computing will be offered at Georgia Tech beginning next fall. The new bachelor’s degree brings together essential elements of both mathematics and ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this ...

Even under normal circumstances, persons with disabilities—one billion people worldwide— are less likely to access health care, education, employment and to participate in the community. They are more ...

The GEOMEAN and HARMEAN are advanced statistical functions that typically require a deeper understanding of mathematics. This is probably why they aren't taught as often as the AVERAGE function.

BTC and inquiry-based math are already promoted widely and used across the state — and the results are not promising.

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A Central Texas teen battling muscular dystrophy and complications that landed her in a Fort Worth hospital got a nice pick-me-up when one of the biggest actors in the world.