Earlier this year the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, or SIAM, conducted a survey of over 1,500 high school students. In this survey, they asked a few questions about math that are ...

Virginia teen spotted a discrepancy in a decades-old math exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston. It turns out that both he and the museum were right.

By emphasizing conceptual understanding, we don't mean to imply that traditional procedural skills aren't important as well. Math is built on a series of rules and procedures.

Recently, I wrote about how the common core has caused some math teachers to move away from teaching tricks. Instead, they’re emphasizing conceptual understanding and letting students figure out ...