Harvard placed mathematics professor Martin Nowak on paid administrative leave amid a renewed investigation into his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, according to a letter obtained ...

In a Massachusetts school district, by 2021, after years of decline on the state test, only 12 percent of middle schoolers ...

The key to improving math outcomes isn’t a new program — it’s transforming how teachers understand and teach the subject.

As teacher confidence grows, the way that math feels in the classroom begins to shift and evolves into a move positive ...

Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students' individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist ...

Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education.

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It hasn't received much attention outside of the defense industry, but the executive order President Trump signed in February establishing the America First Arms Transfer Strategy has ushered in some ...

Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry — but it’s also an amazing math problem. At least, that’s how Varun Varanasi ’24 viewed it when he was a Yale ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

Trevor Story has been the worst player in baseball this season. At least by one measure, that's true for the Boston Red Sox veteran shortstop -- and that being true by any measure is one too many for ...