Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American. What’s the Most Distant Galaxy ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

OpenAI launched its latest frontier model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday amid increasing competition from Google, pitching it as its most advanced model yet and one designed for developers and everyday ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...

Solving tricky maths puzzles is not about memory. These puzzles rely on your proficiency in speed and accuracy in mathematical operations. Speed maths is about mastering fundamental operations such as ...

Finding time to practice math facts during an already jam-packed school day is a dilemma that many elementary teachers face. While it can be a real challenge to find the time and the ways to get ...

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 ...

Tristan has trained assiduously for his first 10K race. Jolie, his mother, times him, standing at the 2-kilometer mark at 6 minutes. He starts off fast but a blowout on his left track shoe inhibits ...

DESTREHAN, La. — During a recent group project in her eighth-grade engineering class, Charlotte Buccola took charge. Standing between the two boys on her team, she silently arranged sticky notes on a ...