PolyGone, a startup that creates microplastic filtration systems, is helping wastewater treatment centers and industries reduce the amount of pollution they release into our oceans. The startup was ...

While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

An advanced math course that parents and students have been clamoring for is on the verge of approval at the Palo Alto Unified School District, but the course must overcome opposition from leading ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds on itself. What does that mean? It means that ...

Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Among high school students and adults, ...

(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 ...

Math teachers at Utah's Hurricane High School are utilizing a nontraditional teaching approach to help their students succeed. The "Building Thinking Classrooms" strategy promotes collaboration.

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Our country is facing a math crisis, with students’ scores on standardized assessments persistently ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

NVIDIA achieves a 4x faster inference in solving complex math problems using NeMo-Skills, TensorRT-LLM, and ReDrafter, optimizing large language models for efficient scaling. NVIDIA has unveiled a ...

In an economic boon for the city, a massive plot of empty fields near the regional wastewater plant in North San Jose could become a new data center and advanced manufacturing campus, potentially ...