Amid fears of layoffs and other cuts in the school district, there are bright spots like the middle school math team, which last week won the Massasoit Mathematics League championship. “You can feel ...

For a clip of Charles Xu talking to the host of “Who Wants to Be a Mathematician,” go to ams.org/wwtbam/national/contestants-2010.html. What: The Colorado Math ...

Faye Hedrick's third-graders at The Bolles School are scattered around the room in groups of four. Each group has 36 cubes. The task is to divide the cubes equally among all four members of the group.

To complement Quality Counts 2010’s exploration of reinvigorated interest in common standards and assessments on the national stage, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center conducted an ...

Tom Henderson, of the Math for Primates podcast and MathPunk.net, has a Kickstarter campaign to raise money so he can write a Punk Mathematics book. What's punk mathematics? Well, as Tom explains, ...

Some new polling data is out that seeks to better gauge how Americans generally, and parents of school-age children in particular, view math and science education. Here are some quick tidbits from the ...

This is a question that comes up every now in then. But I would like to ask a few similar questions with my first order approximation answers. I would love to hear some other ideas on these questions.

If the World Science Festival's panel on string theory tackled the question of whether the math behind it could be a reliable guide to reality, its panel on the Limits of Understanding seemed to ...