Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Parents whose children are struggling with math often view intense tutoring as the best way to help them master crucial skills, but a new study released on Monday suggests that for some kids even that ...

An expert argues that the "strands" of structure used in mathematics education have significantly weakened the effectiveness of US school mathematics. During the "New Math" movement of the 1960s, a ...

The New York–based program studies how structured musical elements may assist student understanding of math concepts. Structured rhythm can provide a framework that helps students organize and ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

This is the second in a two-part series. Part one can be found here. The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of ...

During one session of The Math Circle—a Cambridge-based extracurricular program that aims to teach kids math “the right way”—a 12-year-old girl demanded that Robert Kaplan tell her the answer to a ...