Many students complain and question math learning in school because they feel it isn’t necessary for their future lives. However, many students don’t realize that math is used and applied everywhere.

Rochy Flint has been a mathematics educator for more than 20 years and is the founder of MathChavrusa, a collaborative ...

This summer, Sarah Cone wrote a provocative essay asking why today’s billionaire philanthropists don’t build institutions the way their predecessors did. As examples, Cone cited Andrew Carnegie ...

Elementary school students who use an AI-supported learning tool learn arithmetic more quickly than children who do not use such a tool. This is the finding of a multiyear study by Radboud University ...

When you’re solving a challenging math problem, you know your brain is working hard. But what, exactly, is going on in there? Despite decades of research into math teaching and learning, there is ...

Students learn math best when they approach the subject as something they enjoy, according to a Stanford education expert. Speed pressure, timed testing and blind memorization pose high hurdles in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...

A school year unlike any other is coming to a close, but one thing remains the same: We’re still tussling, in the same old ways, over how math should be taught. More data science, less stuffy ...