NYC Solves has faced criticism from educators for assuming kids have mastered skills, leaving some lost and frustrated.

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ...

Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. In early November, the California Department of Education released its list of approved ...

Many freshmen at the University of California San Diego are struggling with middle-school math despite having strong transcripts, a trend experts attribute to rising grade inflation across the U.S. A ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...