Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

Ford’s Talladega was never meant to be a showroom darling. It was a numbers exercise, conceived to turn wind-tunnel data and ...

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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For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

The timer, stopwatch, and media controls now work with AOD on Pixel Watches. The update appears to be rolling out with Google Clock version 6.11. Google has started rolling out an update for the Pixel ...

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 ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

I’ve always loved the mathematical precision of running. When I started the sport in high school, I would plot out the exact time, to the second, that I hoped to run each lap. In my 20s and 30s, I ...

The Senate this week passed a bill to fix IRS math error notices for filers who make simple mistakes on their tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service Math and ...