A few weeks ago, a self-described “frustrated father” posted a page from his son’s supposed common-core math assignment on Facebook, claiming that despite his own degree in engineering, he could not ...

A tricky math question on a second grader's assignment left one mother puzzled. In fact, she was so stumped by the word problem that she turned to the internet for help. Angie Werner called on fellow ...

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For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...