A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the U.S. Their “math designer” stands at ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Math is, by definition, a subject about numbers. But at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics this week, math educators said the subject has its own language, too—and knowing how to speak it ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Algebra can be ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...

Math instruction in the United States traditionally follows a sequence: Algebra I in eighth grade, followed in succeeding grades by Geometry, Algebra II, and Precalculus. The progression is designed ...