If North Carolina high school junior Katie Denton struggles with her Algebra 2 homework, she knows she’s not on her own. Denton can use her school-issued smartphone to send instant messages to her ...

Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation.

Math-tutors.org appears to be an educational site but is actually a proxy used by students to bypass school internet ...

Think about the so-called "story problems" you studied in algebra and other math classes. How many of them dealt with, say, two trains which, no matter how far they traveled, could never catch your ...

Jesse Schell is, perhaps, the top educational game designer in the business right now. A few months ago I asked him what his favorite educational game was. After a brief pause, he replied, “DragonBox ...

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

On a chilly morning at Marlboro Elementary, three eighth graders gather around a table strewn with notebooks, laptops, and a stack of planetary data sheets. They’re not just ...