A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American. What’s the Most Distant Galaxy ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Neil Saunders, City St George's, University of London Mathematics is a “science which requires a great amount of imagination”, said the 19th-century ...

Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave the world Dilbert, is suffering mightily in the final throes of cancer. After he departs this vale of tears, his glorious BS radar deserves to be prominently ...

The apparent solution among the education establishment is not to challenge kids to stretch their minds and hit the books but ...

President Donald Trump said in a White House speech Wednesday night that he was sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...