Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they often find themselves at sea when first confronted with writing proofs.

In California, more students fall behind in math every year they stay in school and the math achievement gap has grown faster ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The growing popularity of professional graduate degrees over the past several decades ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

Remember when you were a child and scraped your knee? You didn't stand over yourself shouting about how clumsy you were. You simply cleaned the wound and moved on. Somewhere between childhood and now, ...