UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has declared that no social media platform will get a "free pass" when it comes to children's online safety under new government proposals.

First-year Bad Axe math teacher Lilly Hessling, inspired by her educator mom, helps students build confidence and shares tips for resilience.

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

For many individuals, growing uncomfortable with mathematics often starts in early childhood when they receive a worksheet with numbers on it. At this point in life, there may be feelings of panic, ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Students, parents ...

While testing combinations of MediaWiki's preformatted text and <nowiki>, I found cases where <math> tags are converted to [math][/math] format by renderMath() but then not processed by MathJax, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The back to school season means more opportunities for students to participate in engaging and challenging math competitions. Math competitions are beneficial for students of all ages and levels.

When first responders arrived at the upstate New York home of Cathy Krauseneck, they had no idea of the horror they were about to uncover. Krauseneck lay dead in her bed with an ax still stuck in her ...