A nearly year-old Facebook event for a "simple maths competition" has been one of the most viral posts on the platform for ...

Math anxiety is causing many students to self-sort out of the STEM career pipeline early, closing off career paths that would likely be fulfilling (and lucrative). Credit: Andrea Morales for The ...

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Multiple independent analyses say the recently passed House reconciliation bill — even with its deep spending cuts in some ...

Facebook's transparency center has published its Widely Viewed Content Report, showing what people see on Facebook.

In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former Trump adviser Elon Musk solved an "unsolvable" math problem after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb.

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? A new study from the University of Kansas ...

Visualisation methods such as t-SNE and UMAP are widely used in research, yet they often lead to misinterpretations due to distortion. The authors introduce a statistical framework to detect ...

Yes, people often describe math as scary. If you are about to start school or have already started school, math class may not have been on your list of favorite classes in the upcoming school year.

Explore a wide range of recent research in mathematics. From mathematical modeling to why some people have difficulty learning math, read all the math-related news here.

Hollywood studios vying for taxpayer money often run up against a fundamental problem when trying to convince the public to support their efforts: Their math simply doesn’t add up. Earlier this week, ...

Pure mathematics uses mathematics to explore abstract ideas, mathematics that does not necessarily describe a real physical system. This can include developing the fundamental tools used by ...

Worksheets. Problems on the board. Showing your work. Some common math problems don't even involve numbers -- just frustration. Though many classrooms are trying new, exciting approaches to ...