In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

In “Inflict­ing maths on chil­dren is costly for the eco­nomy” (Letters, December 21), Sandie Hobley argues that functional numeracy be taught in primary schools but that more advanced maths should ...

The future elementary school teachers that Mark Montgomery works with at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, share a common fear: Most of them are “extremely anxious” about math.

Did you know that loss in learning was a topic discussed as far back as a century? Experts believe there is a 50-80 percent learning loss on the second day of a lecture compared to the 100 percent ...

Real talk: For most of us, math elicits negative emotions – I’m talking break-out-in-sweat or washed-over-with-inadequacy-level negative. Too many rules to memorize, too little time to remember them ...