Playing linear number board games, those where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can significantly ...

It’s an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren’t. Tanya Evans, an associate professor in the School of Education and Human ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

Christopher Brownell has been named the new chair of the Department of Mathematics and Science in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SLAS) following a competitive search. A longtime mathematics ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has made devastating cuts to mathematics funding. Mathematics research typically requires few materials. To explore the secrets of prime numbers, investigate ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

The DREME Network was created in 2014 to advance the field of early mathematics research and improve young children’s opportunities to develop math skills. The Network focuses on math from birth ...

The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

The mathematics department will be hosting an internal research experience for undergraduates and early graduate students in Summer 2025. If your idea of fun is thinking about mathematics, then this ...

Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.