Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

A Florida fourth grader was feeling down about her reading skills, so one of her classmates came up with a way to brighten ...

Some of the supporters of the phonics curriculum California adopted last year are now urging statewide math screening for young students.

Microsoft Math Solver is a free tool that uses AI to recognize both printed and handwritten math. It’s particularly strong with geometric proofs and interactive graphing, and it pulls learning ...

Michael Slipenkyj is partly supported by a Mitacs internship with Vretta Inc., a Canadian educational technology company. Heather P. Douglas has developed an early numeracy screener that is being used ...

In what you might call my third career — my 25-plus years as a professor of the practice of management at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business — I’m asked often about inspiring role ...

Nearly half of young New Yorkers statewide are still missing the mark on standardized math and English exams, according to newly released data. The state Education Department released its yearly ...

At a time when celebrity routines often promote extreme diets and strict workouts, Oscar-winning actor Jennifer Lawrence stands out for her refreshing approach to fitness and body image. Her fitness ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

The boy picks up “new concepts at lightning speed and [retains] them effortlessly,” according to his parents Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has ...

America’s students continue to struggle in mathematics. The reasons are multifarious and sometimes elusive, but our recent research suggests the difficulties may have less to do with the math itself ...