Ronda Dawson, left, executive director of teaching and learning at the Illinois State Board of Education, and Kirsten Parr, director of standards and instruction, present the final draft of the ...

A bill aimed at revamping Ohio's K-12 math education at a time when many Ohio students are falling behind in the subject may become law after passing the Ohio House on June 9. On June 9, an amended ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

Ed Orgeron is back in Baton Rouge as LSU and its former head coach finalized a deal late on Wednesday, May 20. Orgeron joins head coach Lane Kiffin's staff as a special assistant to recruiting and the ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Last semester, I assigned students in my energy storage systems class a problem set comparing the electrical designs of supercapacitors, lithium-ion batteries and flywheel systems. One submission ...

Louisiana students are outpacing their peers in most states in reading and math growth, even as much of the country struggles to recover from a “learning recession,” according to a new report.

Trust Issues: Yale’s faculty recently called its own financial aid process “unpredictable and secretive”—a problem, new survey data suggests, that’s costing higher ed public trust. Credit: iStock It’s ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In 2023, fourth-grade boys ...

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