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A group of 10 sixth-graders proved themselves to be pretty good at math last month. That’s probably why they’re called Math Masters. Math Masters is a math club for fifth- and sixth-graders. On March ...

It started with flash cards. Stephanie Mui, 17, remembers practicing on the cards with her dad. "He taught me addition, multiplication, subtraction," she said. That was in preschool. By first grade, ...

The University of Washington's Center for Game Science has an outrageous claim: By playing a computer game called DragonBox Adaptive for 90 minutes, 92 percent of first graders can master algebraic ...

Finals were over and summer vacation has started. An app that ranked as top 1 on the US educational app ranking chart, has caught the eyes of many students during the final season. The e-learning app ...

Andrew Hacker has a bombshell opinion piece in last Sunday’s NY Times, arguing that teaching algebra to all students is a wasted effort. Students are routinely told that math is a gateway subject—you ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why the national reaction was so strong to Andrew Hacker’s op-ed in last Sunday’s NY Times, “Is Algebra Necessary? ” After engaging with various blog posts and ...

Number theorist Yitang Zhang receives the Qiu Shi Outstanding Scientist Award for his exploration into the nature of prime numbers Yitang Zhang may not be a household name, but in the world of ...

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