Utah tried to infuse data science into its math standards. That effort got caught up in a broader debate about rigor and what math high schoolers need.
Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...
Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...
Dr. Mehmet Oz got his math completely wrong while trying to defend President Donald Trump on drug prices. NBC’s Kristen Welker pointed out in an interview Wednesday night that Trump has repeatedly ...
A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...
A simple online math question left a parent and Reddit user baffled after they shared a screenshot of their son's learning platform that appears to get the concept of measurement completely wrong. In ...
In fall 2021, the Student Course Evaluation Advisory committee modified the ten common questions to reflect the increase in learning experiences outside of a traditional “classroom.” Compound ...
Some students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some, ...
EXCLUSIVE - A new report from Parents Defending Education alleges that since 2021, the Department of Education has awarded over $200 million to forty-eight universities injecting DEI content into ...
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It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. In June 1978, the ...
EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college ...