MANILA, Philippines - If elected president, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte wants Algebra, Calculus and Trigonometry removed from the education curriculum and replaced with Business Mathematics.

I recently finished reading "The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions" by Andrew Hacker. I came on his writing through some opinion pieces he wrote, and I think there was a big piece in The Atlantic.

The cultural shift to the political right will have foreseeable consequences, but banning of controversial books such as “Huckleberry Finn,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Catcher in the Rye” and “The ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Ari Marchesso planned to spend this ...

THIS work is constructed on the methods of the school of mathematicians who derived their inspiration from the teaching of De Morgan, a school which is represented by many of the most influential of ...

IN these pages one is treated to a selection of some of the chief questions that relate to Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, and Trigonometry. Stress is laid on the more elementary parts of each subject, ...

Eighth grade algebra teacher Rick Riccio helps students with a problem at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga/The Hechinger Report BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic ...

BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific ...

One of the most useless questions you can ask a kid is, What do you want to be when you grow up? The more useful question is: What are you good at? But schools aren’t giving kids enough of a chance to ...

The New York Jets' turnaround started with a math analogy. After losing to the Houston Texans last month, Todd Bowles announced a back-to-basics approach on offense, saying they needed to return to ...