Ten years ago, Jeffrey Adams, a mathematician at the University of Maryland, made an appearance in The New York Times that prompted a series of angry emails. His correspondents all wanted to know one ...

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Wayne State University has suspended its requirement that all students take a mathematics course, striking at the heart of a debate over whether math should be a mandatory part of general education.

Imagine a world with no math. What a wacky place it would be. But that is exactly what a team who work at “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” pondered in a volunteer project for a new Save the Children ...

A rumor that Cool Math Games, a go-to site for entertainment by school-aged kids across the United States, is shutting down spread like wildfire this week. The site has long been a favorite among ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the philosophy and ethics of science and technology. It’s a prejudice that could seriously harm young girls, yet it ...

Bright and early on Monday morning, a chipper interviewer for the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Chai, on the line with United Torah Judaism MK Menachem Eliezer Mozes, jostled playfully with the ...

Supremes Uphold Due Process While Handing Trump ‘Win’ in Venezuelan Deportations Case After Fourth Circuit Rebuke of Trump Administration, Supreme Court Temporarily Stays Judge’s Order to Return ...

Combinatorics is a fancy word for counting. Doing really big problems by the partial products method gets really cumbersome and no one actually does it. Don’t try to do this chapter if you don’t have ...

A new report has found that Illinois has 60 public schools at which zero students reported grade-level proficiency in either reading or math, in a troubling sign for the state's education system.

The latest results of the tests known as the Nation’s Report Card offer a mostly grim view of academic progress in U.S. schools. “Over the past decade, there has been no progress in either mathematics ...