Alex Snouffer is helping put Washington County Public Schools on the map. The Hagerstown resident won the TrigStar competition for the second year in a row, beating students from across the state of ...

As a mathematical achievement, it may not be up there with solving the Poincaré Conjecture but it was still a remarkable feat. An 11-year-old girl from India this week became the world's fastest-ever ...

Alex Bellos: You only need a cursory familiarity with the work of magicians like Derren Brown and David Blaine to realise that at the heart of many illusions lies a piece of rock-solid mathematics ...

Alex Song (Zhuo Qun) is the 18-year-old Canadian who won the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad in Thailand. While most eyes were on the athletic competitions at the Pan Am Games in ...

The Moody's Foundation has pulled out of sponsorship of the Moody's Mega Math Challenge, a national math modeling competition for teams of high school juniors and seniors. Now the Society for ...

Kennedy has used a curriculum called Eureka Math since 2015. Math lessons require students to explain, not just memorize. About 25 JCPS schools use the curriculum Clarification: This story has been ...

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced today that it has found a sponsor for its annual math modeling competition. Boston-based MathWorks, which creates software such as ...

There’s a familiar divide between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, the views from inside and outside the schoolhouse are very ...

Alex Bellos: Ever since Euclid proved there were an infinite number of prime numbers, mathematicians have been on a quest to find higher and higher examples Alex Bellos: This week a revolutionary new ...