Experts debunk the myth of a once-in-823-years event, revealing the simple math behind a standard 28-day month.

Charlotte Checkers head coach Geordie Kinnear, center, team battle the Iowa Wild on Friday, October 17, 2025 at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, NC. JEFF SINER jsiner@charlotteobserver.com The ...

No one knows the challenges of back-to-school season better than parents. From uniforms to last-minute glue sticks, scissors, and pencils, the list seems endless. Yet there’s something magical about ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news ...

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In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an admissions requirement five years ago? Now arrives the dispiriting result: Many freshmen at one of its ...

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 sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

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 ...

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Checkers have made some big changes over the past two years, but the team’s performance on and off the ice hasn’t missed a beat. This month, the Checkers started their ...