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 ...

Richard Hoshino is a tall, slim mathematician, as tightly wound as a precision timepiece, and irrepressibly polite and cheerful. He also has a hard time taking "no" for an answer. Eager to share his ...

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 ...

When it comes to math, students in the United States have trailed their counterparts in Japan on tests of international competition for so long that closing the gap seems utterly hopeless. For example ...

Officials recently released the results of a quadrennial global study on math and science education for young children, intended primarily to measure their basic scholastic ability in those subjects.

Japan may soon open its gates to Indian primary school teachers specialising in mathematics as they believe that Indians are the best in the world when it comes to teaching this subject. Japan may ...

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 ...

Vedanta lectures at the Ramakrishna Math back home have helped them understand their religion better, delegates from Japan tell B SIVAKUMAR in Chennai Vedanta lectures at the Ramakrishna Math in Japan ...

A student from Chiba University pours wheat into a pot to create the craft beer, in the Chiba Prefecture city of Narashino on Jan. 25, 2022. (Mainichi/Nobuyuki Mashimo) NARASHINO, Chiba -- A group of ...