Adults are in a sense condoning cheating so Nevada students can earn a diploma. Earn is an extremely charitable word. More than a thousand seniors will be handed their certificate of completing high ...

Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society. Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society. The Open Mind is available ...

Students entering the eighth grade this year will be the first class to need to pass three years of math to graduate from Washington’s public high schools, but they’ll get some leeway in how they do ...

In science and mathematics, it has been a fairly common occurrence for two different people/teams to be working on the same problem, and invent the same solution. After all, both fields are concerned ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...

In his new book, In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, Ian Stewart recounts one of the worst jokes in the history of science. You can develop your own setup from first ...