For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less ...

This story is part of a series from the Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. At the Erikson Institute, a child-development-focused graduate school in Chicago, this annual ...

In 2019, mathematicians finally solved a math puzzle that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three cubes”: Find x, y, and z ...

Answer: 42.5 (Subtract 36 from 49, divide the answer by two. Add that number to 36 to get the answer). Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. What number do you get if you multiply all the numbers on a ...

Aggie Gambino helps one of her twin 10-year-old daughters, Giuliana, work on math worksheets as they go through homework from school at the dining room table in their home Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...

Some math problems have been challenging us for centuries, and while brain-busters like these hard math problems may seem impossible, someone is bound to solve ’em eventually. Well, maybe. For now, ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi ...