One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from which ...

The new state policy of requiring algebra in the eighth grade will set up unprepared students for failure while holding back others with solid math skills, a new report has concluded. These ...

OLYMPIA — A state Senate committee passed legislation Monday to eliminate a requirement that threatens to keep hundreds of high school seniors from obtaining diplomas. Those students did not take the ...

Regarding the Bloomberg guest editorial, “For too many kids, math isn’t adding up” (Nov. 20 print edition): Memorizing math rules does not always lead to understanding math problems. It may lead to ...

In science and mathematics, it has been a fairly common occurrence for two different people/teams to be working on the same problem, and invent the same solution. After all, both fields are concerned ...

AP English teacher Mark Hernandez speaks to students at Gunn High School in Palo Alto on March 16, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. A judge has ruled that the Palo Alto Unified School District’s method ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...

These rules are subject to change by the Graduate Committee; students will be notified of any such changes. Students may petition to the Graduate Committee for an exemption to any of these rules by ...

In grade school, you were probably constantly drilled on mathematics. Whether it be multiplication tables, simple addition, or complicated division, it was taught over and over again that quick math ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...