The nation's students are getting better at math, but their reading performance is mixed, with slight progress in grade four and a slip backward in grade eight. The 2005 scores come from the National ...

The shift to Common Core is still rolling in at most high schools, with teens caught midstride in the traditional algebra-geometry path allowed to finish their journey, while incoming classes start ...

For many families, reading is as much a part of summer as cookouts and camp. But as the weather warms, math is often banished along with mittens and sweaters. And that’s a problem. Studies of “summer ...

Another highlight was an eye-opening lecture titled, “100 years of elliptic curves” by Jennifer Balakrishnan, a distinguished mathematician renowned for her contributions to number theory.

Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I found myself dealing with how to multiply fractions as ...