If anything can be said to have a bright future today, it's complexity. The tools, systems and infrastructures that make the world go round are increasingly intricate and interdependent.

Faced with dismal success rates, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College was desperate for new ideas to help some of the city’s most underprepared students gain the math skills needed to earn a degree or ...

To the editor: As a physics professor who uses Algebra 2 (and higher math) every day, I felt compelled to respond to the debate over how much math the University of California system should require ...

Should all students take Algebra 2? Florida seemed to say “no” this spring with the passage of a law striking it from graduation requirements. Texas said much the same in legislation Republican Gov.

A summary of findings from a four-year study released Thursday concludes that Algebra I teachers who were trained in and used a program that allowed them to monitor students’ progress on graphing ...

Linn-Benton Community College is finding ways to teach math in more applied ways, so that students can pick up those skills and get into the workplace. It’s 7:15 on a cold gray Monday morning in May ...

Carol J.V. Fisher has a doctorate in mathematics. She is finishing her ninth year at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Mass., and will move to Lenox (Mass.) Memorial Middle and High School in ...