How can we fix the leaky pipeline that results in the field of mathematics being dominated by men? How are women in math treated in their workplace environments? What barriers exist that make it ...

More girls are in school today than ever before, but in mathematics, girls are increasingly represented among lower performers, while remaining underrepresented among top performers. Mathematics is ...

Professor of Mathematics Assaf Naor has been awarded the 2019 Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics in recognition of his pioneering achievements at the interface of the geometry of Banach spaces, the ...

American students remain stumped by math. The 2019 scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress test were published last month, showing that performance for fourth- and eighth-graders ...

American students are struggling with reading. And the country's education system hasn't found a way to make it better. In fact, fourth and eighth grade reading scores on the National Assessment of ...

Despite the massive influx of devices and software into K-12 schools, educators say the vast majority of math instruction takes place offline, according to a new survey from market intelligence firm ...

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Little more than 1 in 3 American 12 th graders read proficiently and fewer than 1 in 4 performed proficiently in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2019, marking widening gaps ...

Several studies have already debunked the myth that boys are innately better at math than girls, but those are largely based on analysis of test scores. Now, researchers also have brain imaging that ...

At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both. Faye E. Goldman's origami, center, on view at the National Museum of Mathematics ...