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 ...

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 ...