Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

Not long ago, blue states typically outperformed red ones when it came to education. That is changing. Blue states like Oregon and Washington experienced significant drops in reading and math scores ...

The Ohio Senate’s version of the state budget bill would change the way Ohio students learn math. Ohio schools’ math and reading scores on state tests dropped significantly during the COVID pandemic.

It's not feasible to contact every member of the population, so only a sample, or a subset, of that population is included when conducting statistical research. The assumption is that the sample is ...

Fourth-graders work in their classroom at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena in 2023. Tests scores of fourth- and eighth-grade students across the nation continue to lag. (Christina House / Los ...

Some of the biggest challenges in teaching math aren’t about the numbers and operations themselves, but students’ attitudes toward them. Getting students to think deeply about problems, persevere ...

When auditing a company, auditors use a combination of professional judgment and statistical sampling methods to estimate account balances. Statistical sampling is an efficient way to design samples, ...

Driven by new technology called OpenAI o1, the chatbot can test various strategies and try to identify mistakes as it tackles complex tasks. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Online chatbots ...

ChatGPT has already wreaked havoc on classrooms and changed how teachers approach writing homework, since OpenAI publicly launched the generative AI chatbot in late 2022. School administrators rushed ...