As we near the end of the year, high school students (and their parents) will be debating whether to continue with Pure Maths, or make the change to Maths Literacy.imageWhile Pure Maths will pave the ...

So for example, while the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 6.14% APR this week, the average rate on a 15-year fixed-rate home loan was 5.59%, a difference of 55 basis points, ...

Unsplash Most people assume that because I’m a physics major, I’m a STEM major — but at this college, that acronym doesn’t ...

Whether the economically illiterate factions within the GOP and the White House like it or not, the laws of economics are ...

A federal agency is working on a 50-year mortgage, but experts say that longer-term home loans are not a viable solution to ...

On a more microscale (literally), microlearning has been shown to help “protect mental health and support resilience” by giving learners repeated, low-stress opportunities for building skill and ...

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

More students are falling behind in math each year—and once they do, they rarely catch up. Many of these proficiency gaps trace back to missed foundational skills in the early grades, which compound ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

Re: “Trump doesn’t understand ­economics,” commentary, Aug. 6. I got a lot of good information out of that opinion piece, as it was written by a retired economics professor. I found it quite ...

Fresh concerns about President Donald Trump’s plans for rolling out his pick for Federal Reserve chair shook traders Thursday, after a Wall Street Journal report said the announcement could come by ...