A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Blade Nzimande, has announced that his department will strengthen its long-term partnership with the Department of Basic Education, with ...

To obtain a certificate in 2026, Russian schoolchildren must score at least 24 points in the Russian language and satisfactorily (three points) in basic mathematics. This became known on January 20 ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a sharp rebuke Monday to Democratic strategists and party insiders pushing for a pivot ...

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Boston’s path to staying elite hasn’t been about shooting or star power, but about rebounding, turnovers, and extra chances.

Generative AI can become a substitute for rigorous research and thinking, but it can also be a tool that helps people think more critically by freeing them from mundane tasks.

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 ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...