One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started.

Cherry Creek Schools paid an outside company that’s come under scrutiny more than $65,000 for a Brazilian film crew to shoot ...

👉 Learn how to determine the transformation of a function. Transformations can be horizontal or vertical, cause stretching or shrinking, or be a reflection about an axis. You will see how to look at ...

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core principles didn’t come easily. How do mathematicians decide that something ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

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Three Fields Medalists, researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind and dozens of mathematicians and computer scientists gathered at Stanford last week to envision how artificial intelligence (AI) might ...

John Oliver is very confused. The Last Week Tonight host tried to unpack the mathematical equations of Donald Trump’s Cabinet on Sunday, but was ultimately at a loss. In an episode taped before shots ...