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 ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

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An apparently easy-looking math problem has left internet users scratching their heads. The elementary-grade problem looks ...

The numbers did not compute. Even before Terry Rozier dropped out of the 2023 NBA game in which he's accused of rigging his statistics, computers at an "integrity monitor" firm flagged a flood of bets ...

"My dad never spoke much about the war. A quiet man, he never needed to. The scrapbook did the talking," Bill Flick writes.

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OpenAI researchers prematurely celebrated on social media, announcing that the AI had solved a series of famously difficult ...

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Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...