The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build on English learners’ strengths. Seventy-seven percent of 8th-grade ...

A focus on rich, real-world problems makes math more interesting, relevant, and enticing to students.

Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discovery? Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.

By building math skills—in the classroom and in adulthood—we can be part of an American public that prides itself in mathematical exceptionalism, not mathematical avoidance.

Math skills can empower people who are in prison — and help them land jobs after they’re released.