More than 800 professors in the University of California system, including seven of nine math department chairs, are calling on system leaders to reinstate SAT/ACT testing requirements for applicants ...

University of California professors are sounding the alarm on a “severe” lack of math skills among college students — thanks to a decision to ban standardized testing in admissions at the elite ...

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ready or not. Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior ...

If all my contributions, along with my employer’s contributions, had been invested in the S&P 500, my balance would be more than $4 million. I could take a very sustainable withdrawal rate of ...

Democracy feels intuitive, fair, and rational, yet mathematics tells a far more troubling story. In the mid-20th century, a formal proof showed that no voting system can fairly translate individual ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

One of Baseball America’s most highly anticipated releases each preseason is our annual farm system rankings, which list all 30 organizations based on high-end talent, overall prospect depth and more.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

A first-generation immigrant who left a career in finance to follow his passion for teaching has written an eye-opening new memoir of his experience navigating what he calls "wokeness" in the U.S.