Starting next year, more STEM majors in community colleges will be enrolled directly into calculus, skipping prerequisites, ...

A heart-stopping moment caught on surveillance video as a large scaffolding plank falls among pedestrians walking to New England’s busiest train hub that is also the region’s busiest bus terminal. (AP ...

For the last 20 years at the U of I, students in intermediate algebra, Math 108, and college algebra, Math 143, haven’t spent ...

Illinois Report Card data show high achievement and persistent performance disparities at Evanston Township High School. Test ...

He tells us—twice—that he owns his own jet, on which he spends $1.2 million a year (“one of the easiest financial ... surprised to discover that the first 100 pages or so of “The Algebra of Wealth” ...

FrontierMath's performance results, revealed in a preprint research paper, paint a stark picture of current AI model ...

FrontierMath, a new benchmark from Epoch AI, challenges advanced AI systems with complex math problems, revealing how far AI still has to go before achieving true human-level reasoning.

Working on a theory of everything is a mistake because we don’t understand quantum mechanics (8:00). These are just wrong: nature is both pretty and described by deep mathematics. Furthermore, quantum ...

Those who had been randomly assigned to the new mixed level class had test scores in 11th grade that were no worse than those who had learned Algebra 1 separately. Some detracking advocates argue that ...

The 1:1 ratio results from the way the X and Y chromosomes are doled out in sperm and eggs. We know that boys and girls are produced in much the same frequency. But how – and why – is this 1:1 ...

When students take Algebra 1 matters. If high schoolers don’t pass the course by 9th grade, they’re unlikely to reach college-preparatory math in high school. There are too many courses to get ...