Math and Science Academy in Woodbury believes it has found just the right place for its new building — an existing cornfield that wasn’t even listed for sale. MSA Building Co., an entity related to ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective ...

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, show eighth-graders' science scores have fallen 4 points since 2019 and ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

Google’s AI R&D lab DeepMind says it has developed a new AI system to tackle problems with “machine-gradable” solutions. In experiments, the system, called AlphaEvolve, could help optimize some of the ...

It’s a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think it’s because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, ...

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

One of the landmarks of Kyoto, the home of Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, is the Kamo River. At certain points, there are stepping stones that allow residents to cross the river away from ...

The Mississippi State Board of Education has recommended that the Mississippi Legislature consider relocating the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science to Mississippi State University. The ...

What is it: A lively playoff game based on multiple-choice pre-calculus and calculus questions displayed one-at-a-time via a computer projection system. Who Attends: Everyone is welcome to attend and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...