A simple math problem sparked heated debate on Chinese education forums two years ago. A man gives his son six yuan to buy bread. The boy spends four yuan. How much change does the seller return? The ...

Andrew Hacker, a political science professor at Queens College, says all students don't need to learn calculus, geometry and trigonometry. He's pushing for the adoption of "numeracy" -- which would ...

One of the joys of being an educator is embracing all the differences every student brings to the classroom, while teaching them to celebrate those unique traits in themselves and each other. Yet, ...

Sitting in a high school math class, utterly befuddled by the concept of graphing a useless polynomial, the students begin to riot, challenging the teacher with the seemingly unanswerable question, ...