Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Long before humans carved numbers into clay tablets or scratched equations onto stone, people in the ancient Near East were already dividing space, counting patterns, and thinking in mathematical ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

A simple slip of phrasing from Donald Trump has once again taken on a life of its own, and now fans are questioning his intelligence and how well he retains information even more. The latest frenzy ...

The anticipated duel between Flamengo and Palmeiras next Sunday (19) will feature two players wearing the number 9 jersey with high potential to be decisive at Maracanã. Pedro and Vitor Roque had good ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

Healthcare has a daunting and growing supply and demand problem. We have a growing population in the United States and not enough physicians, nurses, allied healthcare providers and technicians. It is ...

Prime numbers, which can only be divided by themselves and one, raise a host of interesting questions for mathematicians: At a small scale, the numbers seem to be randomly distributed, but, in ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

The Tennessee Titans are 1-6. Obviously, it is not where they want to be. So let the positive spin begin. The franchise dished out more than a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of contracts this ...