It seems to be the worst kept secret in our schools. Our kids don’t “get” math. At elementary school, children are swarmed by a variety of so-called math concepts, overloading their brains with a ...

A few weeks ago, the Asbury Park Press posed the same question — how to make math more interesting — to middle school and high school students in the monthly Student Voices essay competition. It was ...

Young children can perform certain kinds of math operations before ever receiving any kind formal math training, a new study reports. The finding suggests children have an inborn intuition about math ...

Using innovative strategies to help children retain information has enabled a Gainesville school teacher to make learning easier for her students. "I go back and talk about their culture. I break it ...

Mathematics can be both mind-boggling and illuminating. Though it can require mental gymnastics to follow some recent developments in math research, the effort is often rewarded with fascinating ...

It can often be difficult to convey the power and appeal of math to a general audience. But that doesn't mean that people aren't trying. Two such efforts were brought to my attention in the past week.

Cooks use math to make beautiful food all the time: Slicing eight perfect pieces of pie or doubling a recipe requires basic knowledge of fractions, for example. But how many cooks think about using ...

One of my past great wishes was to have been introduced to arithmetic by a good teacher when I was a first grader. Sad to say, my teacher was my mother, who was no good in the subject, but good in ...

Perhaps the happiest of Stanford’s new captives is Yale’s Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights ...