Many of us like to think that we’re fairly smart. But it can be a very humbling experience when you’re in the presence of ...

Social Security beneficiaries receive an annual COLA based on average inflation rates from the prior year. This cost is rising faster than the annual COLA, and it cuts directly into many retirees' ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds on itself. What does that mean? It means that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Math teachers have to accommodate high school students' different approaches to problem-solving. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The ...

Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far ...

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

The Internet can be a tough field of play, but Mary Crippen has managed to tackle it with ease. After all, the Miami-based third grade teacher has gone viral with her playbook—er, lesson plans—packed ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...