A UCSD report said the school should reject students who struggle with math, but researchers have found that those students ...

In theory, it should be a good thing for teachers to earn a master’s degree. After all, no one would choose a poorly trained ...

In many cases, parents or school administrators push back against a child’s deserved bad grades or their need to repeat a ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

When the College Board canceled SAT testing in 2020, hundreds of colleges adopted test-optional admissions policies for that ...

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

A university report found a sharp rise in first-year students lacking high school math proficiency. At UCSD, where more than ...

Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them.

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

The idea that reality—the universe, our world, and everything we perceive—is a simulation has fascinated philosophers and scientists for millennia, but new findings suggest that the theory, despite ...