Math problem. We're falling behind. Everyone should be scared | Opinion

In many cases, parents or school administrators push back against a child’s deserved bad grades or their need to repeat a ...
Education Week

The Best Ways to Teach Word Problems So All Students Understand

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...
Los Angeles Times

Math crisis began a decade ago and has only worsened, report says

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...
NPR

How Alabama students went from last place to rising stars in math

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...
GeekWire

Seattle’s traveling math magician on why problem-solving matters more than ever in the age of AI

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...