For most Americans, the decision about when to start Social Security is the single biggest retirement math problem they will ...

If a state with a reputation for educational excellence is holding up a district where fewer than half of students are meeting or exceeding the commonwealth's assessment benchmarks, then we ...

But the bigger point is how foundational these stories are to how we narrate struggle and resilience. Middle school teaches ...

Picture a budget meeting at a city agency or a corporate boardroom. A generative AI system drafts a cash-flow projection, summarizes a long policy memo, and suggests a pricing tweak or benefits change ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person ...

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 ...

An AI chip company’s financial hallucination. The outcome of regulators’ push to break up Meta. What Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon texted about. More food safety rules weakened in the shutdown deal ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI that “evolves” code solutions, rediscovered and improved proofs for the finite-field Kakeya conjecture. Gemini Deep Think verified the logic, and AlphaProof formalized the ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...