Five states — Georgia, California, Tennessee, Utah and Oregon — have better aligned high school and college math courses in ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. “I am the next ...

This niche analysis from Boaler (Limitless Minds), an education professor at Stanford University, explores strategies for improving how students learn math. Rather than insisting students learn rigid ...

An anonymous complaint filed with Stanford on March 20 accused math education professor Jo Boaler of engaging in “reckless disregard for accuracy” in both her individual work and her work on the ...

Mathematical modeling is the process of developing mathematical descriptions, or models, of real-world systems. These models can be linear or nonlinear, discrete or continuous, deterministic or ...

From fireworks to woodburning to modeling fire behavior, Jenna Sjunneson McDanold’s love of fire has fueled her growth as an artist and a mathematician. As part of her studies as mathematical modeling ...

A Stanford education professor became embroiled in social-media controversy this week, as colleagues and Bay Area community members traded insults and allegations of harassment and threats. But while ...

I visited 20 high schools in the last 20 days. In every case, I saw kids suffering through the arcane symbol manipulation of Algebra 2, an obsolete requirement that keeps some youth out of meaningful ...

Note: This story has been updated to note that Stanford will not conduct an investigation into the anonymous complaint. A Stanford University professor considered one of the most influential people in ...

I love math, but I know that I’m unusual. Math anxiety is a rampant problem across the country. Researchers now know that when people with math anxiety encounter numbers, a fear center in the brain ...

In the global conversation about modern modeling, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence, many names have become synonymous with groundbreaking advancement. Cynthia Rudin’s research on ...