I WAS raised in a home where arithmetic was important. Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s in suburban, car-oriented Detroit, my father always carried a slide rule and wore a white-shirt-pocket-protector.

They had the credits. They completed their senior projects. They passed the reading and writing sections of the WASL or a state-approved alternative. They still couldn’t graduate. A few Snohomish ...

Tina Fey wanted to play a math teacher in 'Mean Girls' to counteract cultural narratives that girls/women are bad at math. “Some of the material in Mean Girls was about this period in my life when I ...

What if the famous P vs NP problem isn’t just about algorithms but about the observers trying to solve them? Research ...

Eli has one Mean Momma. He had barely escaped the torture of school last spring when Mean Momma announced, “You will be doing math work every day this summer. You need to know your math facts.” Forget ...

The table above (click to enlarge) shows mean test scores and standard deviations for the SAT exam on the three different sections (reading, math and writing), broken down by gender (data available ...