ESCONDIDO — The structured format of equations, consistentfigures and predictable answers found in the math world has alwaysbeen something that 17-year-old Susana Jimenez has gravitatedtoward and ...

Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler spends a lot of time worrying about how math education in the United States traumatizes kids. Recently, a colleague’s 7-year-old came home from school and ...

We were channel-surfing Thursday night when we ran across a show on ESPN2 called “Viking: The Ultimate Obstacle Course” (click on the link and scroll down a bit). It’s a Japanese show in which ...

SPRINGFIELD — Abbie Lambert, a fourth-grade math teacher at Mary M. Walsh Elementary School, shares her journey to personal fitness in her classroom. Lambert is testing her grit in Pittsfield, Vermont ...

Prior research shows that a majority of community college students hope to earn a bachelor’s degree, but among those who transfer, only a fraction complete a four-year degree within six years. One of ...

Getting A’s in math and science isn’t the hardest part of high school for Shamica Nolan, a sophomore at Eisenhower High School in Blue Island; it’s sidestepping fights and drug peddlers. “They are ...

With back-to-school rolling out across the country, many students are dreading math, which can be an intimidating hurdle. Math classes can make students switch out of majors they are interested in or ...

The prosperity of Oregon depends on a workforce that is prepared for jobs in and around the Portland innovation hub. Where that workforce will come from – including how many of these employees are ...

Ingrid Daubechies is a woman of formidable firsts: the first tenured female professor of mathematics at Princeton University (1994), the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award ...