We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

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 ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

Higher education stakeholders have noted that math anxiety can hold students back from pursuing some disciplines or major programs, but a new analysis from Gallup finds that young Americans over all ...

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Even though America's 250th birthday is still one year away, there happens to be a fun, unique, mathematical fact about this year's 249th birthday that will help illustrate just how young America is ...

Many animals have a sense of quantity, but they don't count or do math the way humans do. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

While traversing the moon’s surface after a planned launch later this year, Astrobotic’s shoebox-sized CubeRover will have some downtime: extra computing power that won’t always be in use. And thanks ...

The Earth could be soon flung out of orbit or into the sun - all thanks to a passing star Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry Inside America's only giant ...