"Mathematics in Modern Society" is the theme of a mathematics poster competition open to all high school students from Hamilton County and surrounding areas of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. The UTC ...

I’ve never managed to master much beyond the nuts and bolts of math. I was an honor student who could ace almost every subject, but ninth-grade geometry tripped me up. I slipped through with a C, but ...

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 ...

Too many potential STEM students, especially Latino and Black students, are being filtered out of opportunities because of tracking and placement practices. Too many students of all races are being ...

Students listen as Knightdale High School teacher Alex Johnson reviews examples of sequences during a math class on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in Knightdale, N.C. North Carolina lawmakers could overhaul ...

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Britain’s prime minister thinks students need to learn more math. The British prime minister’s announcement has sparked heated debate abroad about the value of continuing math education into the upper ...

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...

Kenny Felder, a math teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, explains repeating decimals to calculus students in February 2019. Julia Wall News & Observer file photo North Carolina lawmakers could ...