I’m watching my older son tackle algebra now, and thinking about how over the course of my life, I’ve used exactly none of the math I learned after arithmetic. I hated math, and knew early on that ...

To the editor: As a physics professor who uses Algebra 2 (and higher math) every day, I felt compelled to respond to the debate over how much math the University of California system should require ...

Students can take a variety of classes as part of their impactS Math course. The course decision is based on the student’s major, placement information, and the prerequisites for the course. Certain ...

University of California faculty and administrators have been debating a change to required courses that sounds like a small issue, but that should have the academic sphere asking these questions ...

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Math anxiety is far from uncommon, but too often, those who dread the subject simply avoid it. Research from the University of Chicago offers new evidence for the link between math anxiety and ...

The fire service is proudly steeped in tradition. As the saying goes, “centuries of tradition unhampered by progress.” But progress is happening, and a focus on the natural sciences, mathematics and ...

Many students in middle school are testing into higher levels of math than their peers. Is it smart to advance your student, or keep her at her grade level until she really masters the material? We ...

"You absolutely do not have to understand the higher math to be able to do it," says David Salesin, a computer scientist at the University of Washington. Lu agrees that there's no need to project a ...

Debates over how to teach math echo the conflicts over reading instruction, and some issues are similar. But unlike math, reading—in its full sense—draws on everything a person has been able to learn.

My 2nd grader finishes his math enrichment, then gleefully creates blank versions for his dad and me to try: a subtraction-based, number-placement logic puzzle, intended to be challenging. My husband ...