I’m giving a talk online tomorrow at the 2026 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, in the Special Session on Non-Associative Rings and Algebras. The organizers ...

Irene Fonseca has been elected a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...

Mathematics has always demanded patience. From solving linear equations in algebra to navigating derivatives and integrals in ...

The San Francisco school board approved a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

In today’s post, I am sharing this carefully curated list of creative and engaging math bulletin board ideas. These ideas are designed to make math concepts more accessible and enjoyable for students, ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...

Einstein’s equations look like abstract math, but when the logic is followed all the way through, the results get unsettling fast. They predict effects like time slowing down, space bending, and ...

SALUDA — South Carolina’s education leaders have a simple message for their state: “Every student is a math student.” They’re tired of the idea that some kids just aren’t good at math, or that it’s ...