Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...

Nearly 1,000 UCSD freshmen test into elementary school math despite stellar high school grades—a crisis 30 times worse than ...

Almost 30 years ago, a group of Kaktovik students invented a numbering system that reflected the way they counted in Iñupiaq and made math more intuitive for them. Soon, anyone in the world will be ...

Many complicated advances in research mathematics are spurred by a desire to understand some of the simplest questions about numbers. How are prime numbers distributed in the integers? Are there ...

The natives of a remote Polynesian Island invented a binary number system, similar to the one used by computers to calculate, centuries before Western mathematicians did, new research suggests. The ...