A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...

This fall, the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences launched a new master’s of science graduate program in ...

To be sure, there are many reasons that American schools are failing to teach math: an aversion to standardized tests, powerful teachers unions, chronic absenteeism and grade inflation, to name a few.

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

Let's go play at the beach, playground and outerspace! Sing along to the melody of “BINGO” with this playful new song, “LET’S PLAY”! Toddlers and preschoolers will practice sorting skills at the beach ...

Have you ever grouped data in Excel only to find your months sorted alphabetically instead of chronologically? It’s a frustrating quirk of the GROUPBY function, one that can turn a clean dataset into ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

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 ...

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

The Education Department has released a new Nation's Report Card. High school students, especially 12th graders, are reading and learning math and science at historic lows, according to a new report ...