A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Business leaders can’t outsource mathematical thinking to AI without sacrificing judgment, because real-world business problems demand practical, approximate reasoning rather than pristine textbook ...

While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

Robert Suarez is going to the NL East, not as a member of the New York Mets, but as the newest member of the Atlanta Braves bullpen. It’s a bit of a serve considering the Braves had already re-upped ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

Venezuela is not the only global hot spot where President Donald Trump is considering launching U.S. military strikes. In early November, Trump said he ordered armed forces leaders to prepare for ...