ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Out of the 60 nations whose students took the Program for International Student Assessment in 2012 and 2015 U.S. students in 2015 ranked 35 th in ...

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“Math is a super easy subject that anyone can master”, said no man ever. Math is indeed challenging, but it can never be boring. The complex theorems, bind-twisting numbers, and complicated algebraic ...

EUREKA — The third annual Humboldt Math Festival is slated for Saturday at the Bayshore Mall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The math festival is “a community celebration of math” organized by local educators ...

It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...

With kids back in school, apps can be a fun way to enhance and encourage learning. But finding the good ones that are age appropriate is always a challenge in this saturated market of kid apps.

Who says education can't be a lot of fun? There's a growing movement in classrooms to play the KenKen arithmetic logic puzzles invented by a Japanese math teacher named Tetsuya Miyamoto. The game, ...

There's lots of pressure on parents to encourage kids to learn, limit their screen time to worthy content, and help them develop new skills. While there are tons of educational toys, apps, and games ...

Steve Mirsky: Welcome to Scientific American's Science Talk, hosted on November 15, 2015. I'm Steve Mirsky. On this episode: Arthur Benjamin: I think a lot of the fun stuff has been taken out of the ...