Eugenia Cheng. Basic, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-541-60655-5 Mathematician Cheng attempts to impart crucial life lessons via the fundamentals of math in her uneven latest (after Is Maths Real?).

Their math skills, though technically correct, were far too slow to be useful in business or daily transactions. They also lacked transferability to the real world.

Around the country, students’ math performance is in a slump. Middle and high school math are also in the midst of a shake-up, as states and professional organizations seek to alter rigid “pathways” ...

Not so fast, says Eugenia Cheng in her new book, Unequal: The maths of when things do and don’t add up. In mathematics, as in life, some things are more equal than others.

Known as the Lady Gaga of math education, Vanessa is the founder and director of The Math Guru, a boutique math and science tutoring studio in Toronto that’s changing stereotypes about what math ...

And for math fanatic and BYU math education professor Doug Corey, Pi Day is the perfect day to celebrate the real-life application of math.

According to the first-ever survey fielded to RAND’s new American Youth Panel (AYP), 49% of students in middle and high school grades reported losing interest in math about half or more of ...