In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

Doing repetitive computational problems for just a few minutes a day can help students grow their math muscles—and their ...

Parents have gotten the message that reading with their children can help instill lifelong literacy skills. A new study adds to the evidence that parents can be providing the same boost to numeracy ...

Pi Day is Saturday, March 14, celebrating the famous (and very long) number that starts 3.14. Can you solve these three math problems that involve the mathematical value of Pi? They're presented in ...

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.