Confidence in America’s education system is at a historic low. Literacy, math, and civic knowledge continue to decline — even as spending reaches record levels. Teachers are burned out, students are ...

For many individuals, growing uncomfortable with mathematics often starts in early childhood when they receive a worksheet with numbers on it. At this point in life, there may be feelings of panic, ...

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Leeds is set to become the UK's first City of Maths, a new two-year initiative aimed at transforming the way people think and feel about the subject. Launching in January, it will bring events ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Kayleigh Ward and Richard Monteith take issue with the idea that calculators have rendered a proper education in maths unnecessary I’m baffled by Simon Jenkins’ insistence that calculators render a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently ...

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...

An AI system developed by Meta can find solutions to maths problems that have eluded mathematicians for over a century, researchers at the firm claim. The problems involve mathematical tools called ...