Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Students at the Henry Ford Trade School in Dearborn, Michigan being taught shop trigonometry in the 1940's. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images) David Bressoud, a mathematics professor at Macalester College ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple ...

In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. In Sarah Cuddihy’s 1st grade class at Driscoll School here, ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly ...