A classic riddle about a hotel bill uses misleading math to create a paradox. This type of intentional misdirection is a common technique used in magic tricks. Here’s a riddle my father told me when I ...

Jenna Bush Hager says her “big fights” with her dad over bad grades sometimes got so bad she’d “cry myself to sleep” at night. Reporter Jenna Bush Hager has opened up about the cause of some of her ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont educators are working on ways to boost student test scores, which national data this month indicates continue to decline. The Vermont Agency of Education has created a ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

State lawmakers are considering proposals in the state budget that they hope would improve math education for public school students across the state. An amendment in the Ohio Senate's proposed ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - One Dorchester County District Two teacher is looking to make math fun for her students with hands-on activities. Hannah Meverden teaches seventh-grade math at East ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Instructor II Kim Walters is using her Math in Your World class to teach students that math is more than problems in a textbook––it’s a practical tool with everyday ...

A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring, nearly all ...

If you're old enough, you probably remember getting a line from your math teacher that you need to learn the steps to an equation because "you won't always be carrying a calculator with you." In an AP ...

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – something that has generally been deemed impossible using traditional methods for ...