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 ...

Japan ranks sixth in the number of internationally published math theses, the same position it has held since being surpassed by China in 2000, the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy ...

Japan may soon open its gates to Indian primary schoolteachers specialising in mathematics. For, the Japanese believe that Indians are the best in the world when it comes to teaching this subject. HT ...

Beginning in the Meiji era (1868–1912), Japan imported Western learning in its drive to modernize. In the field of mathematics, however, Japan was in some ways already on a par with the West, with ...

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 ...

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.

HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back to Defense Department students gathered Thursday to learn about the Japanese abacus, or soroban, at the Tsukazan Community Center ...

KAWASAKI, Japan (KTRK) -- Giggling and laughter filled every inch of the Toshiba Science Museum. School kids in yellow and blue caps scrambled from one science experiment to another, squealing with ...