NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- Who needs algebra? That question muttered by many a frustrated student over the years has become a vigorous debate among American educators, sparked by a provocative new ...

Chau Duc Tran, a 25-year math professor, will head a new project for Coastline Community College beginning this fall. Tran will teach math to Vietnamese students in their own language. The program ...

OceansideOceanside — In 1975, Mohammed Rajah was hired as the first full-time math professor at MiraCosta College. Four decades later, he’s still teaching every morning at the Oceanside campus and has ...

This adjunct math professor at Cheyney University is helping Black students feel more comfortable learning math. Akil Parker launched All This Math, a tutoring service, after students asked for help ...

In seventh grade, a teacher told Evelyn Silvia she was the best math student he ever had. "My recollection is that I was sort of average in math in grades K-6. But from that point on, that teacher ...

University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg math professor Kayla Heffernan won a national award for creating a college algebra textbook that uses a teaching method called guided inquiry. But Heffernan, 33, ...

A math professor at Brooklyn College wrote an academic paper contending that meritocracy in math class holds back racial minorities and is a tool of “whiteness,” Campus Reform reported on Monday.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (BCN) - Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal, mathematics' leading award, has died of cancer at the age of 40, Stanford News ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A beloved math professor who pioneered lectures that gave millions of people free access to college classes has retired after 61 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

A math professor who alleges he faced "retaliation" for criticizing academic standards changes at his Reno, Nevada college has received a victory in a federal appeals court. Lars Jensen, a tenured ...