Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated ...

Donald Trump’s claim that Harvard is teaching students basic math like “two plus two” has turned out to be inaccurate. In fact, Harvard offers a college-level calculus course (MA5) with ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use ...