These are the five hardest questions from the country’s notoriously challenging college-entrance exam, a batch of problems so ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa & Co. are recommending that teachers stop giving timed math quizzes, writes The Post Editorial Board. AP Proving once again that children’s interests are the ...

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 writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

It’s always fun to test our knowledge with questions from our school days. Sure, we’ve grown up and learned a lot since then, but sometimes we come across a few questions that leave us scratching our ...

Nostalgia is in many ways a shoddy parlor trick, a cheap form of time travel that generally serves to mythologize one’s own past at the expense of an admittedly debased present. Of course everything ...

Summary: New research shows that safe, non-invasive brain stimulation can enhance math learning in young adults with lower natural brain connectivity. Participants who received transcranial random ...

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 ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Four in 10 U.S. adults wish they learned more math skills in middle or high school, according to a new ...

America’s financial literacy report card is in, and the results aren’t good. Only 27% of U.S. adults passed a seven-question quiz about basic financial concepts, according to results from the FINRA ...