“Mathematics is the art of reducing any problem to linear algebra.” This is a quote often attributed to William Stein, a former mathematics professor at the University of Washington, now the lead ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

In many school districts, Algebra 1 serves as a gatekeeper course, influencing access to upper-level math classes that are necessary for acceptance into four-year colleges and universities. In 2009, ...

THE first volume of this standard work, published in 1940 in a revised and rewritten form, covered the algebra prescribed chiefly for the intermediate examinations of the University of London. The ...

We look forward to seeing you at the 2025 MAA Missouri Section Meeting, held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis from Friday, April 4, to Saturday, April 5, with the MCMC preceding it on Thursday, ...

What does math look like when it steps outside the textbook? That was the question I found myself asking—again and again—at this year’s Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Summer Meeting in Quebec ...

IN these 596 pages we have a treatise based on the “Algebra” of Prof. Radhakrishnan. The reason for this is that the latter book is known to be the result of a careful study of the best English ...

One of the landmarks of Kyoto, the home of Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, is the Kamo River. At certain points, there are stepping stones that allow residents to cross the river away from ...

New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new math ...

Math is more than arithmetic, geometry, or algebra. It's also a language that describes everything in the universe to a precision far beyond what words convey, as well as a system of logical thinking.

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. New York City’s teachers union has been a key supporter of the ...