The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...

Adults are in a sense condoning cheating so Nevada students can earn a diploma. Earn is an extremely charitable word. More than a thousand seniors will be handed their certificate of completing high ...

A bill introduced recently in the state Senate might provide relief for the thousands of Minnesota high-schoolers in jeopardy of not graduating because of a new math test. The new test is part of the ...

California math educators this fall have been locked in a vigorous debate: Will the implementation of a new law help more community college STEM students by skipping prerequisites and placing them ...

Students entering the eighth grade this year will be the first class to need to pass three years of math to graduate from Washington’s public high schools, but they’ll get some leeway in how they do ...

Beware of those naysayers – most hardly know what bitcoin is, and most who comment say it is just nerdy math. But, it is math the universe is made from. Have a look at a sunflower or a pinecone. All ...

There is a lot more to math than just equations on a chalkboard. It is a very useful set of tools for tackling problems in many different fields. Math tactics affect our environment in ways that most ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...