What is that high-performing Asian nations get right, when it comes to math teaching? A pair of researchers have explored that question in a new study, which examines the standards of Singapore, Hong ...

Regarding T.C. O’Brien’s Commentary about the ongoing “math wars” between reformers and anti-reformers (“Mathematics and the Pure in Heart,” Feb. 28, 2007): It’s ironic that many of the Asian ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently outlined a plan to improve math skills in England, which will see young people study the subject at school until they are 18. This sounds straightforward but it's ...

Your browser does not support iframes. But You can use the following link. http://sites.asiasociety.org/education/globalcompetence/math.htm Asia Society’s purpose ...

Except for one blip among eighth-graders, U.S. students held steady in math and science but still lag significantly behind the top tier of East Asian countries, according to international test scores ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disparities in advanced math and science skills among different racial backgrounds emerge early on in a student’s development, a ...

A Chinese migrant worker with no college degree has found a solution to a complex math problem – in what appears to be a real life version of the Oscar-winning movie “Good Will Hunting.” Yu Jianchun, ...

Professor Ngo Bao Chau, the only Vietnamese mathematician to have won the Fields Medal, is leaving the University of Chicago after 15 years to take up a position at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) ...