The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

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 ...

Imagine you and I decide to play a simple game of chance. We each throw $50 into a pot and start flipping a coin. Heads, you get a point; tails, I get one. The first person to reach 10 points walks ...

The U.S. high school graduation rate is among the highest in years, with 86 percent of seniors attaining a diploma after four years of study. The rate should be a reason to crow. But it isn’t. The ...

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An international team of authors led by Ilka Agricola, professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg, Germany, has investigated fraudulent practices in the publication of research results in ...

On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO ...

An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist in solving geometry problems in an international mathematics ...

The Rule of 72 has likely made its way to many table conversations about money. It’s a simple, almost magical calculation that tells you how long it takes to double your investment. And you don’t need ...

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Students at St. HOPE’s Public School 7 Elementary in Sacramento on May 11, 2022. Schools across the state have test scores below pre-pandemic levels. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters Welcome ...