Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y, and for those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and ...

My 5-year-old son recently explained to my 3-year-old son that they were two years apart. Three years old plus 2 years old equals 5 years old, he explained. I was hugely proud of his reasoning and ...

Re: "An irrelevant hoop" by Debbie Dominguez, Friday Letters. Eliminate the requirement for Algebra 2 from the Texas student curriculum? Why not also eliminate sudoku and crossword puzzles from the ...

A set of algebra questions from the 1869 MIT entrance exam has recently taken the internet by storm, igniting discussions about the institution's academic rigor and the evolution of mathematics ...