Philadelphia math scores have reached a 9-year high. Officials say it’s the result of training teachers in a new illustrative ...

The decline in the number of South African learners taking and passing pure mathematics – as opposed to the more rudimentary ...

For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

Oil, equity, and credit volatilities all gained meaningfully last week on the back of the miss in payrolls, with the VIX index up 5.5 pts wk/wk to 20.4%, jumping from the 10th to the 73rd percentile ...

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently ...

Bitcoin is showing signs of breaking free from the gravitational pull of technology stocks during the financial market turmoil of the last few days. The original cryptocurrency has maintained a high ...