Hite Elementary is offering Chinese as its world language focus this year. Hite Elementary administrators hope Chinese classes will improve math performance. Last year the school implemented the ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. As the WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math ...

Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau says China trails the pack in his field. He's tapping money and power to change that. It was 1993 and China was bidding for the 2000 Olympics. with the country ...

An unsolvable Chinese math exam question has left the Internet slightly bemused, but others are hailing its approach to critical thinking. The question, photographed from a grade five exam paper for ...

A leading academic has highlighted China's rich mathematical history, including a startling fact about a well-known theorem ...

Just because your business is perfectly targeted and accessible to potential customer base doesn’t mean customers are easy to come by. Here’s how the error of the ...

Colloquy: Join a live, online discussion with David C. Geary, a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri at Columbia, about research suggesting that there are innate differences between ...

Fifth-graders in China's Shunqing district were recently asked to answer this question: “If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship's captain?” The apparently unsolvable ...

A fashion major from a vocational high school in rural China has amazed the nation by outshining elite students in a global math contest – but the teenager’s underdog story has now been mired by ...

Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau says China trails the pack in his field. He's tapping money and power to change that. Americans suffer from an inferiority complex when it comes to math. They see ...