Students studying math can focus on statistics. Statistics is one of the fastest-growing fields in the country and is ranked No. 9 for Best Technology Jobs, No. 50 in Best STEM Jobs, and No. 92 in 100 ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Alan Garfinkel, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains the practical uses of modeling to instructors from around the country. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Math professor Martin ...

SALT LAKE CITY — So how to best describe Americans' relationship with math? The answer is, well, a lot like multivariable calculus: It's complicated. A national Gallup study reveals that more than 90% ...

Math anxiety is causing many students to self-sort out of the STEM career pipeline early, closing off career paths that would likely be fulfilling (and lucrative). Credit: Andrea Morales for The ...

More than 465 Hechinger Report readers filled out our survey about math education. They raised issues ranging from worry about math anxiety to anger about unequal access to higher-level math courses ...

Math can be a difficult subject. In school, I remember being fairly good at math but it seemed a lot of my fellow students were not. There were times when I helped to tutor other students in the class ...

What is it about math that is different than other subjects? It’s often rote-memory heavy, rule- or procedure-based, and only some people are good at it. What if we could teach differently than you ...

'You're so smart!' -- This encouraging response may actually do more harm than good to children's math performance, according to a new study. The study found that encouraging children with responses ...

Is computer science all about mathematics? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by John ...

One snowy January day, I asked a classroom of college students to tell me the first word that came to mind when they thought about mathematics. The top two words were “calculation” and “equation.” ...