Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she’s trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

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Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

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At the NJSIAA full membership meeting May 4, a ballot measures to introduce shot clocks for basketball beginning in the ...

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Carefully considering these five questions can help leaders understand whether they are empowering staff members—or ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look ...