Senior partner says its new report, ‘How We Solve America’s Math Crisis’, shows that best practices are familiar, but rarely ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

On at least three public occasions recently Donald Trump has bragged that he personally caused the price of some prescription drugs to be reduced by “200, 700, or, even, 1,000 percent.” As any fifth ...

Enterprise Mobility agreed to buy St. Louis-based Hogan for an undisclosed sum in a move that would mark its first entry into the heavy-duty commercial vehicle sector. Hogan brings more than 50 ...

The books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe. Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

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 ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...