Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

NCERT’s recently released Class 7 mathematics textbook includes multiple mentions of ancient Indian contributions to the subject and says concepts such as algebra were first developed by Indian ...

View the schedule for this year's observance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, centered on Sunday and Monday, Jan. 18–19. In 2025, Bates social media shared more than a thousand of posts. Here ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

Diophantus is the father of symbolic Algebra. Credit: LeJyBy CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria is one of the most important but often underappreciated figures in the history ...

The proposed policy would combine geometry and algebra into an “integrated” class. The State Board of Education is set to vote on it Tuesday.

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1.

Every Tuesday or Thursday, Eric Simring goes to prison. He drives to Quehanna Boot Camp in Karthaus, PA, or Benner Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, PA, to teach mathematics to inmates. “But these ...

A major vendor has asked city Comptroller Brad Lander to investigate whether the Department of Education’s purchase of the controversial “Illustrative Math” curriculum unfairly sidestepped the bidding ...

Young Alan Turing might have been willing to join his friends in a game of field hockey but probably wasn’t the player to count on for a goal. He tended to get distracted. His mother, Ethel Stoney ...

Google is now showing animated tutorials for some math solver questions in Google Search. Math solvers are not new but I think the animated tutorials are. And if they move too quickly, you can click ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...