When it comes to understanding the shape of bubble clusters, mathematicians have been playing catch-up to our physical intuitions for millennia. Soap bubble clusters in nature often seem to ...

Adopting a technique that stretches back to Renaissance England, University of Chicago researchers have found that intense but relatively low-cost tutoring helps inner-city teenage boys pick up math ...

Daily tutoring can double or triple the amount of math that high school students learn each year according to research out of UChicago’s Education Lab. The recently published study titled Not Too Late ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...