Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets seem to have been knocked out of their orbits, floating through space free ...

If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. Today’s college football bowl slate features the Minnesota Golden Gophers taking on the New Mexico Lobos in the 2025 ...

New York charter school Success Academy outperformed public schools in math rankings statewide, according to the New York State Education Department’s newly released test score data for grades 3–8.

After a month of handwringing over inflation, unemployment and a lack of federal economic data, Wall Street got its answer from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. And it was yes. The central bank’s ...

Silver futures extended their record-breaking rise Tuesday, closing above $60/oz for the first time, driven by fears of a global silver supply squeeze and anticipated rate cuts from the U.S. Federal ...

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 ...

Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far ...

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 ...

Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...