Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.

The 10th and 12th-grade board exams in Haryana are about to begin. As the exams approach, the tension among students and ...

The Collatz Conjecture is defined by a rule simple enough for a child to follow. No matter what number you start with, the process always appears to end the same way — and it has never been observed ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Imagine one day a giant box appears on a former agricultural field. Inside the box is a seemingly endless array of computer servers – thousands of them. To sustain the servers, this giant box uses a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

When the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that was designed to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro ended in spectacular failure in 1961, President John F. Kennedy didn’t blame ...

SHEFFIELD — The Southern Berkshire Regional School District has earned state recognition for returning its grades 3-8 math MCAS scores to pre-pandemic levels, crediting success to teachers’ dedication ...

Walk into many school district offices today, and you’re likely to hear a troubling narrative: They don’t have enough effective math teachers to support their students. New research from the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

Berkshire Hathaway faces plenty of challenges as Warren Buffett steps down later this year, but higher executive turnover and a narrowing of the premium the stock has enjoyed under the “Oracle of ...