CHICAGO — Allie Hays’ friends had a good laugh when they heard about the class she had signed up for at North Central College in Naperville, Ill.: Mathematics of Square Dancing.

The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to need remedial math ...

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Orlando Science Center will exhibit the science of skateboarding during a one-day event featuring demonstrations by Skate Bud and Galactic G Skateshop on Saturday. Their problem-solving and mental ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

Carson City students are making gains in their math skills but showing mixed results in their English language arts skills, the latest Nevada School Performance Framework results indicate. The Nevada ...

I have checked the test in test_math_worksheet_generator.py, and found that there is currently no test for the 'mix' question type. I would like to add a test for the 'mix' question type to make the ...

Underserved eighth grade students in Albuquerque Public Schools are not hitting the goals the Board of Education set for them in math proficiency, according to a monthlong report delivered by district ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...