To Richard Brown, however, math can be as beautiful as a ray of morning sunlight cast upon an orchid's petals, as lyrical as a Beethoven symphony."Math is not about the numbers," says Brown, director ...

Most U.S. adults think that math skills in general are important for the workforce—61% say these skills are very important, ...

A new survey of nearly 90,000 high school students demonstrates American teenagers’ deep ambivalence about how math is taught in schools.