From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

Instead, pure math is the heady domain of visionary theoreticians who make audacious observations about how the world works, which are promptly scrutinized (and sometimes torn apart) by their peers.

Thirty-eight percent of young adults think math is very important in their work life; fewer believe it’s important in their ...

Cornell professor and researcher Steven Strogatz sees math everywhere. We asked Strogatz — a 2023 top award winner of the ...

The field of math education is cluttered with bad and untested ideas. The Gates Foundation is spending more than a billion dollars to try to find a way forward.

A.I. gadgetry might do the same for mathematics, he added: “It’s very clear that the question is, What can machines do for us, not what will machines do to us.” ...