Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

A childhood math pattern led me to question Jung’s claim that archetypes exist beyond the mind—and to ask which patterns come ...

Mathematics emerged as the weakest subject in the 2025 Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment (KJSEA), with only 32.44 percent of the 1,130,459 learners meeting or exceeding expectations.

Scores on New York’s statewide assessment tests improved in both math and English language arts during the 2024-2025 school year. Statewide, 57% of students tested proficient in math last year, up 3 ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

DeepSeek has introduced DeepSeekMath-V2, a new mathematical reasoning model that shifts the focus from achieving correct final answers to ensuring rigorous, verifiable reasoning. This model addresses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Tesla Model 3 Standard arrives with fabric seats, 321 miles of range and rear-wheel drive. It's set to cost $36,990, making it one of the most affordable cars Tesla has ever sold, and the cheapest ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 ...