Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

Cecilia Lopez Alvarado passed high school math with A’s and B’s. But in college, she effectively had to start over. Here’s ...

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 ...

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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.) ...

LONDON—Alex Gerko’s edge as a trader comes from a supercomputer powered by geothermal energy in Iceland. Years before ChatGPT became a household name, his trading firm, XTX Markets, built an ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. More than 8000 students abandoned advanced mathematics in last year’s Higher School Certificate, ...

For more than six decades, Gilbert Strang stood at a chalkboard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught linear algebra, a subject many students find abstract and difficult to grasp at ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...