The "science of math" movement revives old fights over math instruction and raises new questions about what makes for good evidence in math education. How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a ...

Twenty-one years ago this week, mathematicians released a list of the top seven unsolved problems in the field. Answering them would offer major new insights in fundamental mathematics and might even ...

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago Faltings’s proof answered a question that had been open since the early ...

For more than three decades, the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) has captivated Ghana. From its humble beginnings in 1993, from a curious question on a tennis court at the University of Ghana, ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Sarah Powell, an ...