Theoretical mathematician Lauren K. Williams is the second woman in Harvard’s history to get tenure in the math department ...

Sometime in late 1780s, a math teacher in an elementary school in Brunswick, Germany, asked his students to add up the ...

Last week, the MacArthur Foundation announced that Harvard math professor Lauren K. Williams is among this year's so-called ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...