Female elementary school teachers’ comfort with mathematics has an outsize effect on the girls they teach, according to new research. Girls taught by a female teacher got a learning boost if that ...

Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

Last fall, the Stanford Mathematics Department introduced a new course titled MATH 18: “Foundations for Calculus.” The addition was a major step in the department’s ongoing efforts to make its ...

Math teachers in the United States need better training if the nation's K-12 students are going to compete globally, according to new research. Math teachers in the United States need better training ...

People who major in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields are popularly believed to have good careers lined up for them after graduation, with many job market projections showing ...