Quantitative literacy, the ability to interpret numerical data in the context of everyday life, is increasingly important, says Bernard L. Madison, a professor of mathematics at the University of ...

The Poincaré conjecture has been in the news lately. Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman submitted a proof 3 years ago claiming that he had proved the famous conjecture. In August, he won a ...

Across 81 countries and education systems, 15-year-olds lost the equivalent of three-quarters of a year of instruction in math and a half year of instruction in reading, though they held ground in ...