Breard's interest in Chinese scientific history was ignited by Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History, a book that chronicles ...

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 ...

I was the victim of what I call “Chinese math.” At age 26, I took my life savings and left a good engineering job to buy a sports training franchise. I didn’t have enough assets to get a loan so I ...

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 ...

Teachers today face a conundrum: they lack the hours needed to help students master requisite proficiencies. This burden is amplified for those teaching language immersion classes. Some split their ...

Via Prufrock (subscribe for free!), here’s a story about how a group of Chinese math and science teachers came into a British school for four weeks, and taught the kids there the Chinese way: 12 hours ...

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 ...

STAMFORD — A year ago, when Katy Myers started researching the possibility of a “math circle” in Fairfield County, she didn’t know if it would be popular—but it was something she knew she needed to do ...

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 ...

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 ...