Employee unions have proposed raising the minimum basic pay to ₹69,000 from ₹18,000. Here's a breakdown of the key ...

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

Elizabeth Warren had to explain to President Trump’s pick to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers that 4.2 ...

China’s state asset regulator has ordered its central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to double their basic research spending by 2030, seeking to incentivise some of the country’s largest companies ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In 2023, fourth-grade boys ...

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core principles didn’t come easily. How do mathematicians decide that something ...

Donald Trump and his health secretary believe they have reinvented math—and it just so happens that their “different way of calculating” gives the president a win. During a healthcare affordability ...

Social media critics immediately ridiculed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s explanation of President Donald Trump’s math skills on Wednesday. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ...

Earlier today I posed four puzzles from the Hyde Park Math Zine, a maths fanzine from Austin, Texas. Here they are again with solutions. 1. Ring it Each region has a perimeter given by its enclosed ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...