At the University of Vaasa in Finland, mathematician Yosra Barkaoui has successfully generalized a fundamental theorem that had remained confined to “bounded” systems for more than 40 years.

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

The Madison Metropolitan School District and Edgewood University launched a partnership to expand access to dual credit mathematics courses for high school students while providing enhanced training ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

An international team of authors led by Ilka Agricola, professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg, Germany, has investigated fraudulent practices in the publication of research results in ...

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress ...