Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 20—I stared at the last question on my daughter's first-grade math homework as if doing so until my eyes grew callouses would ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

As educators and industry mull strategies for attracting more young adults to math-oriented professions, a new study in the journal Child Development suggests that children's early experiences doing ...