A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

The San Francisco Unified School District is investigating a math teacher at Lowell High School amid questions about his teaching methods.

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and ...

The U.S. Department of Education is proposing to rework a decades-old program charged with helping states and school ...

In revamping its approach to math, Illinois joins a growing group of states that are passing legislation, unveiling new requirements, or issuing revised guidance designed to counteract yearslong ...

Abstract: The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to advances in natural language processing, but handling mathematical tasks remains a challenge due to the demands of text ...

A dad was left scratching his head after struggling to come up with an answer to a particularly tricky question in his child’s first-grade English homework. It soon became clear, however, that there ...

Abstract: We present a multi-way parallel corpus of Math Word Problems (MWPs) in nine languages, including six low-resource languages. To date, this is the largest multilingual MWP dataset available.

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...