One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from ...

The new state policy of requiring algebra in the eighth grade will set up unprepared students for failure while holding back others with solid math skills, a new report has concluded. These ...

California algebra rule highlights basic math difficulties Any of us who have ever been in a math classroom know that too many kids lack fundamental arithmetic skills.

From Minnesota Public Radio, Jeff Horwich reports on a class of 10 year-old math wizzes, who can hear and calculate complex arithmetic at the speed of light. At an elementary school in central ...

Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society.