A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...

Every summer, scores of tourists take to the bustling streets of Barcelona, a city known for its breathtaking architecture. Nicolás Atanes Santos, a young Spanish mathematician, sees this as an ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: The importance of math literacy cannot be overstated (“Math crisis began a decade ago and has only ...

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In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Donald Trump promised drug costs would drop “1,000 percent”—then claimed a $10 pill would become $20—in a head-spinning arithmetic car crash. In a Fox News hit that left viewers baffled, Trump said, ...

Gabriela Whitemarsh, a bilingual mathematics teacher at Pasco High School, was named Saturday as Washington’s 2026 Teacher of the Year. Courtesy Educational Service District 123 A trailblazing ...

The euphoria toward artificial intelligence is creating a strange kind of new math in the stock market: Plans for massive AI investments often lead to even larger increases in market value for the ...

Researchers, teachers, and graduate students in Mathematics and related disciplines have expressed concerns about the UGC draft curriculum for Mathematics, 2025. “It is riddled with grave defects, and ...