Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Lorna Romero Ferguson of Elevate Strategies and Sam Richard of Consilium Consulting joined The Show to talk about the ...

Officials say they’re “finally seeing the payoff” after years of reading and math reforms. Altogether, Alabama schools earned a record score of 87 on the state report card this year. And lots of local ...

UCSD is no slouch in the college rankings: U.S. News and World Report pegs it as the sixth-best public university in the ...

In an industry where “transparency” often stops at marketing slogans, Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) has delivered something few ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Key Points ・UC San Diego’s own faculty report shows a thirtyfold jump since 2020 in freshmen arriving with math skills below the middle-school level, raising concerns about admissions practices and ...

Topology has real implications in the world. For example, topological techniques can be brought to bear on calculating the trajectories of spacecraft, and missions have been saved by the efforts of ...