Roy Glapion, a lifelong New Orleanian and former engineering executive, talks about family roots, building Citywide Testing & ...

A new math puzzle designed to challenge readers of all ages is coming to the Daily Press. David Genter, a puzzle developer ...

This is for the first time that the Baudhāyana–Pythagoras Theorem has been introduced in Class 8 NCERT Math textbook. , ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving ...

Scientists have long known that mutations in certain genes affecting microtubules in plants can cause plants to grow in a twisting manner. In most cases, these are “null mutations,” meaning the ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – something that has generally been deemed impossible using traditional methods for ...

Polynomial equations are a cornerstone of modern science, providing a mathematical basis for celestial mechanics, computer graphics, market growth predictions and much more. But although most high ...

The abysmal student achievement results reported in the 2024 Nation’s Report Card, the annual measure by the National Assessment of Education Progress, triggered the usual alarm bells. Teachers’ ...

North Carolina lawmakers have described the Division of Motor Vehicles as “broken” and a source of frustration for residents who struggle to make an appointment at a driver’s license office or wait in ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...