Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

correctionA previous version of this article quoted the founder of Just Equations as saying data showed many high school students who take Algebra II struggle in the course. The data showed they ...

High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, most do not. Algebra I is the single most failed course in American high schools.

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Growth and change in technology have brought a boom in the availability of data and the need for people to shape technologies. Growing areas like machine learning require expertise in programming, ...

To the editor: In all my years of undergraduate and graduate studies, I can’t remember ever thinking, “Gee, I sure wish I had taken more algebra in high school.” (“UC stirs furious debate over what ...

The Department of Math and Computer Science announces a new Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Data Science. In recent years, “big data” has emerged as a critical field for organizations to make ...

Faculty members across the University of California system are staging a behind-the-scenes protest against an admissions policy they say risks leaving their students unprepared for college-level math.

Many parents relish reliving moments from our childhoods through our children, and doing homework with them is its own kind of madeleine. For Steve Levitt of “Freakonomics” fame — who is, in his own ...

Lindsey Henderson hopes to change the conversation about math in her state. As student math performance declined in Utah and states across the nation over the pandemic, most learning-recovery efforts ...