HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back to Defense Department students gathered Thursday to learn about the Japanese abacus, or soroban, at the Tsukazan Community Center ...

When it comes to teaching math and science, is the grass always greener across the Pacific Ocean? “I'm working with educators to help prevent students from hating math before they even know what it is ...

focus on repetition and mastery of skills. (Record photo by Beverly Shilling Math for Carly Harmon is as everyday as washing her face, as rote as tying her tennis shoe. She flies through her math ...

Truthfully, David Glefke, 8, of Prospect Heights would rather be out in-line skating than sitting in a church basement twice a week, doing math drills. “I don’t like math at school,” David said, after ...

TOKYO -- An app developed in Japan for people to learn the abacus-method of math calculation skills is gaining global popularity, with more than 8,000 students at home and abroad using the app to ...

When teams of Georgia educators met to discuss how best to revise math education in their state, they agreed to look east for inspiration—the Far East, that is. Obscured by all the debate over the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last month, a national cry of alarm greeted the announcement by the Organization for ...

Japan ranks sixth in the number of internationally published math theses, the same position it has held since being surpassed by China in 2000, the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy ...