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 ...

A new compilation of the illustrated geometry problems that decorated shrines in seventeenth-century Japan provides puzzles that are still intriguing today, finds Peter J. Lu. At the beginning of the ...

Japan’s elementary and junior high school students scored highly compared with peers from around the world in the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Japan’s students performed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Authai the Asian elephant is no Dumbo. She can’t fly, but she can do math. At the Ueno Zoo in Japan, scientists successfully taught the 14-year-old pachyderm to compare numerical quantities using a ...

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 ...