Imagine a classroom where students stare blankly at a writing prompt or fumble with math problems that should take seconds.

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

Tesla has published a new patent that describes a way to squeeze more performance out of its aging HW3 self-driving computers. While the technology is interesting, nothing points to it actually ...

More than 100 brilliant young Arnn Elementary Knights and their families stormed the "Math Knight" event Jan. 14 at the Sagamihara Housing Area ...

NYC Solves has faced criticism from educators for assuming kids have mastered skills, leaving some lost and frustrated.

Renowned as both a rigorous mathematician and thoughtful mentor, Ono was noted for his foundational work in algebraic number ...

In 2020, the UC Board of Regents, against the advice of many, chose to eliminate standardized test scores such as the SAT ...

Real scientific efforts at universal communication have also involved mathematics and numbers. The covers of the Golden ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...