While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and ...

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In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve a major problem in algebraic geometry — using entirely alien techniques. It instantly captivated the field, stoking excitement in ...

For the first time, doctors have watched a treatment slow the course of Huntington’s disease in people, instead of just easing symptoms. In a small international trial, people who received an ...

A black hole inside a distant spiral galaxy is devouring material from the universe around it and creating winds at speeds never before seen by astronomers. The European Space Agency said that the ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive black hole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light Supermassive black holes are the monsters of the universe, so it is perhaps only ...

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 ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole simulations, legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote down a set of formulas to calculate the ...

Nearly half of young New Yorkers statewide are still missing the mark on standardized math and English exams, according to newly released data. The state Education Department released its yearly ...