As the most-watched television event in the United States, the Super Bowl has always been more than just a football game. Each year’s contest becomes an opportunity to speak to broader ideas and ...

This year all Springfield eighth graders have an opportunity to take algebra for the first time in a number of years ...

Students should not be left to struggle with routine math needed to manage their finances, bake a cake or do a home repair.

Are schools asking the wrong question about how to teach math? A decade of stagnation in math achievement has forced a deeper look into the nationwide debate between advocates of explicit instruction ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. No matter where you look, a bell curve is close by. Place a measuring cup in your ...

For decades, scientists have used math to approach a question no one can answer directly. The Drake Equation doesn’t confirm anything — but it quietly changes how loneliness feels. When you consider ...

The war in the Middle East should push up oil prices. That’s not happening. The US is the world’s largest oil producer, and OPEC+ has promised more crude. Douglas A. McIntyre, Editor-In-Chief of ...

There’s extraordinary interest in AI, fueled by waves of enthusiastic declarations that “everything is about to change.” Dan Meyer, the vice president at Amplify, is skeptical of such claims. Meyer, ...

Many of us would probably like to forget sitting through math classes in school. But let’s briefly travel back, just for a moment, to sixth grade, when you were likely introduced to ratios. A ratio ...