Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

It took a few years, but Utah finally solved the simple math problem that has dogged homeless services. State lawmakers this session approved funding to build a 600- to 800-bed shelter in Salt Lake ...

In Jodie Murphy's kindergarten class in Aston, Pennsylvania, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent morning, the children used plastic red and yellow dots ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

The question goes: "A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?" Is your knee-jerk response that the ball costs ten cents? That is a ...

For the past two decades, every American defense strategy has grappled with a basic math problem. The United States has five major adversaries — China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups.