A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the U.S. Their "math designer" stands at ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

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 ...

Randomly scramble the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to form a seven-digit number (or a six-digit number if the leading digit is 0). Rank the following events in order ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...

How a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Following President Donald Trump's announcement of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of America's trading partners, many questioned how the administration had calculated the rates at which to levy each ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...

Unveiled at WWDC 2024, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 pack in a bunch of new features, with AI in the driving seat. One stand-out feature is Math Notes. It’s a number solving feature that can give you the ...