Earlier this year, Denver Public Schools tried to blame President Donald Trump for their enrollment crisis — and even made a ...

Math students may not blink at calculating probabilities, measuring the area beneath curves or evaluating matrices, yet they often find themselves at sea when first confronted with writing proofs. But ...

A dad was reviewing his son’s math homework assignment when the unexpected appearance of two words, scribbled in pencil, stopped him in his tracks. Reading the words back to himself, Dave Robbins, a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation by Patty Wellborn, University of British Columbia edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes Credit: AI ...

As Virginians choose our next governor, we face a pivotal question: Will we continue building an education system that prepares every student for a rapidly changing world or settle for maintenance ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the ...

For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Known as the Pythagorean Theorem, this ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

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Noah Giansiracusa says that his new book, “Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life” (Riverhead), was inspired by many sources. One was fellow mathematician Jordan Ellenberg ...