South Dakota's proposed math standards are sparking debate, with critics saying they're too simple and lack guidance.

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

👉 Learn how to complete the square to solve a quadratic equation. Completing the square allows us to create a binomial squared so that we can solve using the square root method. Solving by completing ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight The proposed ...

The National Association of Scholars has pushed its model standards in social studies, science and English language arts. Now it’s set its sights on math.

Today is Pi Day for 2026, the universal celebration of an amazing, mysterious, and irrational mathematical constant. What's that, you say? Why do we celebrate something that shows up in some of the ...

Learn how to solve quadratic equations by factoring the difference of two squares. We can identify the difference of two squares by looking for binomials that have square terms. A difference of two ...

Artificial intelligence is a game changer across many fields these days and mathematics is no exception. Yet, the rapid acceleration of its ability to solve some of arithmetic’s most challenging ...

As Illinois educators move towards implementing the best practices included in the Numeracy Plan, all of us — teachers, parents, caregivers — should share the stories that focus on who ...