Morning Journal/Mary Ann Greier Southeast Elementary School fifth grade teacher Amy Orville and her students, from left, Kaden Chambers, Marlene Francisco, Erica McKenzie, Eulalia Nickolas-Mateo and ...

Joselyn Marroquin does her homework at a park a few blocks from her home in the Bay View neighborhood of San Francisco. Photo by Nina Riggio for CalMatters Joselyn Marroquin, a freshman at Lincoln ...

The shift to Common Core is still rolling in at most high schools, with teens caught midstride in the traditional algebra-geometry path allowed to finish their journey, while incoming classes start ...

Jodi Gold of New York City uses the Bedtime Math app with her children. Photo: Bedtime Math Foundation For many families, reading is as much a part of summer as cookouts and camp. But as the weather ...

Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I found myself dealing with how to multiply fractions as ...

Another highlight was an eye-opening lecture titled, “100 years of elliptic curves” by Jennifer Balakrishnan, a distinguished mathematician renowned for her contributions to number theory.