BENGALURU: At a time when there is a shortage of over 50,000 teachers in government schools and children lacking basic ...

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

An apparently easy-looking math problem has left internet users scratching their heads. Give it a try to see if you can ...

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The problem with the “basic math” behind delaying Social Security is that it often overlooks longevity risk. While it’s true that waiting longer increases your benefit, your total lifetime payout ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

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You know that moment when you realize your kid has been “getting support” for months (or years), and still can’t decode a simple word or solve a basic math problem? Yeah. That. It’s one of the most ...

The Education Department has released a new Nation's Report Card. High school students, especially 12th graders, are reading and learning math and science at historic lows, according to a new report ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

The billionaire heiress who recently donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign is bankrolling a national push to bring “woke math” into public schools ...