BAUMHOLDER, Germany — Count on it, kids. This will be the school year for numbers. And leaving math class means you won’t necessarily leave math behind. For the 2003-2004 school year, ...

Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...

Within roughly 24 hours in this past week, I ran into two cartoons that dealt with topics we have kicked around before, one of them as recently as the last column. They both dealt with common ...

Elias (left) and Ethan (right) make a sign advertising their food equity survey. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

As the curtain rises, an illuminated mathematical expression dominates the scene. “Do you see that theorem?” the narrator asks. “In 1637, Pierre de Fermat . . . wrote it down in the margin of a book.

When Allison Hintz, a professor of math education at the University of Washington, reads children’s literature, she sees math everywhere. An illustration of footprints offers a chance to practice ...

Even President George H. W. Bush claimed to have exposed the real message behind The Simpsons. He believed that the series was designed to display the worst social values. This motivated the most ...

The course will demonstrate the nature and power of mathematics to students by teaching core mathematical material which is both broadly important to mathematics and computer science and illustrative ...