Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored. A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. His students had watched the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael and Diane discuss why America’s approach to math class isn’t adding up. They analyze the outcomes produced under the ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay included a widely quoted but outdated statistic for the proportion of Americans with math anxiety. How should we teach children math? Given that over 50 ...

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, ...

Want to make better decisions in your personal life and the workplace? Turn to math, says Hannah Fry. The British mathematician, bestselling author and host of Bloomberg Media's "The Future with ...

One of the challenges to getting students engaged in math is the perception that it’s a subject where you sit at a desk and do 30 math problems alone. There are a number of ways to make math more ...