Four years after a Japanese mathematician announced he'd cracked an epic math problem, his fellow number crunchers are a step closer to deciding whether he got it right. Yes, his work is that ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...