Getting to the root of the problem early on, adds up to math success later. The students who took part in ROOTS intervention did so in addition to the regular kindergarten math curriculum.

The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up images of M.C. Escher’s endless staircases, Möbius-strip ants, and mind-boggling tilings. Or it might remind one of the intimate intertwining ...

In the mid-1990s, MLTT intersected with pure mathematics when Michael Makkai, a specialist in mathematical logic who retired from McGill University in 2010, realized it might be used to formalize ...

Set theory constructs all of mathematics by starting with literally nothing — the null set — which is defined to be zero. The set that contains a single element — the null set — becomes the number 1, ...

Students whose parents reported high math anxiety made significantly less progress in math over the course of a year, and they were more likely to become anxious themselves—but only if their ...