My kids have a strange aversion to numbers. They seem to like the idea of quantifying things around them, but when the numbers hit three or four digits we have something of a family mental block.

The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the ...

The push to reform America’s failing schools dates to the Reagan administration’s 1983 report, “A Nation at Risk,” which found that U.S. students’ test scores were plummeting. That news was so ...

Inspiring students to pursue math is no easy task. To many, the thought of studying higher levels of math is intimidating and undesirable. This is one of the mindsets that my generation grew up with.

Corey Murray is a former managing editor of EdTech: Focus on K–12 and a 20-year veteran of writing about educational technology. There’s no escaping the urgency for better science, technology, ...

I still remember learning in grade school that men were better at math and science, and women were better at English and art. The teacher (who was a woman), presented the information as a general fact ...