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.

"I'm bad at Japanese, but I'm okay at math.""I can do calculations, but I get stuck on word problems.""Won't they catch up ...

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 ...

I recently visited two large bookstores in Tokyo, Japan, to cover the local math culture, and I couldn't help but be amazed. While bookstores in Korea have at most two or three shelves for math books, ...

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 ...

Hello, I am N, a Kyoto University student. As autumn deepens and the weather gets colder, it is easy for 11th graders to ...

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 ...

The Edo-period pursuit of wasan, Japan’s domestic tradition of tackling mathematical problems, was one involving samurai and commoners, young and old alike. Historical records reveal that women and ...