The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics urged schools Tuesday to place less emphasis on paper-and-pencil computational skills and to spend more time teaching students to solve practical ...

High school math should be more practical, more engaging, and without tracking systems that place some students — often low-income, African-American or Latino — in less challenging classes that leave ...

EAGLE COUNTY – “What good will this do me?” asks the 10th grader picking at an algebra problem.It’s a pointed, timeless question that doesn’t always have a quick answer. When parents and teachers are ...

The stock market's wild gyrations may be stressing you out, but they can also offer a chance for you to talk to your kids about real-life math. The math experts at Sylvan Learning offer these tips for ...

For too many years, K-12 education has been largely oblivious to the gaping mismatch between mathematics curricula and the needs and reality of the working world. It is increasingly apparent that the ...

Miami’s Department of Mathematics has added Applied Mathematics as a new major joining its Mathematics and Mathematics and Statistics programs to welcome a new cohort of students enrolling in Fall ...