The law requires the IRS to provide a clear explanation of tax-filing errors to taxpayers on its math error notices.

Math is a major obstacle for many students. Poor math skills exacerbate inequality in education. The good news? Educators and policymakers across the country are tracking these challenges and ...

Taken very literally, not all students are created equal -- especially in their math learning skills, say researchers who have found that not fully understanding the "equal sign" in a math problem ...

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees, too, can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much ...

The question of how a mathematics student at university-level makes sense of a new mathematical sign, presented to her or him in the form of a definition, is a fundamental problem in mathematics ...