It all started with an innocuous TikTok video posted by a high school student named Gracie Cunningham. Applying make-up while speaking into the camera, the teenager questioned whether math is “real.” ...

My daughter is here for Christmas Break (and god dammit I miss her a lot) I'm in Los Angeles and she is a Freshman in Texas. We are planning her High School Math curriculum and she is doing rather ...

Algebra is all about missing values or numbers. If you have solved a missing box problem, you have already solved an algebra equation. Rather than drawing missing boxes or writing the words “missing ...

Algebra is the discipline of pure mathematics that is concerned with the study of the abstract properties of a set, once this is endowed with one or more operations that respect certain rules (axioms) ...

Robert Moses, founder of The Algebra Project, talks about his longtime efforts to help low-income students and students of color achieve math skills they need for economic success. From NPR News, this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about global education, game-based learning, kids, & culture. This article is more than 10 years old. On average, it took ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. I discovered recently that my calculus students do not know the meaning of the word “quorum.” Since a course in ...

Last week's Points section featured an essay by Andrew Hacker, a political science professor emeritus at City University of New York, on why schools should ditch algebra as a universal requirement.