In seventh grade, a teacher told Evelyn Silvia she was the best math student he ever had. "My recollection is that I was sort of average in math in grades K-6. But from that point on, that teacher ...

In 2019, the Nevada System of Higher Education decided that students who needed remedial math instruction could receive it at the same time they were taking college-level math courses instead of ...

April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month—a time to celebrate teaching math, which can be, as experts say, a “hard sell.” I spoke with Sean Nank, a professor of teaching and learning at the ...

Steven Zucker, an internationally recognized mathematician and a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, died Sept. 13 after a long illness. He had turned 70 the day ...

John Milnor remembers arriving at Princeton University in 1948 as an introverted, "rather socially maladjusted" freshman who had a hard time making friends. But he soon found a home in the Math ...

Mathematics professor Gregory Lawler was named a co-winner of the $100,000 Wolf Prize. The award recognizes Lawler’s research in probability theory involving random walks and Brownian motion, which ...

LA GRANDE — More than five decades ago, Eastern Oregon University math professor Patty Sandoz, then a senior at Springfield High School, feared she was an accidental imposter. Sandoz was among six ...

OceansideOceanside — In 1975, Mohammed Rajah was hired as the first full-time math professor at MiraCosta College. Four decades later, he’s still teaching every morning at the Oceanside campus and has ...

This adjunct math professor at Cheyney University is helping Black students feel more comfortable learning math. Akil Parker launched All This Math, a tutoring service, after students asked for help ...

When Alain Bourget went public with his textbook spat with Cal State Fullerton last week, he knew the risky move would set off a wave of backlash from his department. What the associate math professor ...