But he won’t be winning any awards—he died more than 1,000 years ago in the Maya empire that once flourished in Mesoamerica.

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago ...

Researchers have reconstructed and transcribed a mathematical formula from the site of Xultun, Guatemala, revealing the name ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Many students see the equal sign as a signal to calculate, rather than a symbol of equivalence. Here’s how to clear up that ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine signed a wide-ranging education bill that creates new math instruction requirements, and mandates student remediation when performance is low on the state report card ...

I challenge you to a game. We roll a fair die, and if it lands on 1 or 2, you get $10. If it lands on 3, you get $20. Otherwise you go home empty-handed. Because you can't lose anything this way, I ...

La'Tasha Givens is a two-time Emmy Award-winning reporter and anchor with nearly two decades of experience in television news, radio and public relations. She has built a reputation as a trusted ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – Four education bills have become law, introducing new math and reading requirements in New Mexico. The High-Quality Literacy Instruction Bill mandates schools to use proven reading ...

SANTA FE — In a move she said will support both New Mexico’s students and teachers, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law a suite of education-related bills Monday intended to bolster reading ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...