Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Math is generally a required subject for students in the United States until college. You might elect ...

With a STEM revolution at hand, colleges are searching for a way to make math more accessible. When Chelsea Castilloadame left the Navy Medical Corps after five years to pursue her longtime plan of ...

Math is a notorious stumbling block that trips up students seeking college degrees. Every year, tens of thousands of young people fail to graduate because they can’t earn enough math credits. To help ...

Corrected: In a previous version of this story, the group that is developing a linear algebra and geometry course of study was misidentified. The group is the Education Development Center. When ...

Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...