The Latest Breaking News from Math

Editorial: Why accountability matters so much to Florida’s schools and vouchers

The grim news courses through the latest Nation’s Report Card: Half a century of educational “progress” has yielded no progress at all. The National Center for Education Statistics’ long-term trend assessments for American 13-year-olds in math and reading make for tough reading. The upshot? Reading scores fell to where they…

Tribune News Service · Jul 4, 2023

Kirkcudbright's Dark Space Planetarium receives funding boost from Galloway Hydro owners

Drax Foundation has given the visitor attraction £25,000 to help improve access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics

Daily Record · Jul 4, 2023

Media Math and Myth: Password, Please (Schley)

In clamping down on credential-sharing, Netflix may lose millions of customers. And gain even more

Multichannel News · Jul 2, 2023

Children's maths question sparks online debate as adults can't solve 'simple' problem

Did you guess the right answer? Let us know in the comments below.

Daily Record · Jun 28, 2023

COVID-19 hurt kids' math learning more than reading and writing – with the biggest setbacks in fall 2020

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The Conversation · Jun 27, 2023

Four teachers posted on deputation at Bargur tribal residential school in Erode district

Four teachers have been posted on deputation at the Government Tribal Residential Higher Secondary School in Bargur, Erode district, and they are expected to join duty on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. 

The Hindu · Jun 27, 2023

Editorial: Education emergency: The falling NAEP scores show that COVID badly hurt how America’s kids are learning

The national test considered the gold standard of whether schoolchildren are gaining or slipping has delivered alarming news: Kids are backsliding in both math and reading. Thirteen-year-olds assessed in the fall of 2022 scored about the same in reading as those who took the test in 1971, when it was…

Tribune News Service · Jun 27, 2023

America's education system is failing–but a growing school choice movement believes it has the solution

School choice programs mean that students aren't locked into attending a district public school based on home address.

Fortune · Jun 23, 2023

Proving Fermat's last theorem: 2 mathematicians explain how building bridges within the discipline helped solve a centuries-old mystery

On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat’s last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries. Wiles’ announcement caused a sensation, both within the mathematical community and in the media.

The Conversation · Jun 22, 2023

Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds in the US plunge

A test known as the ‘nation’s report card’ shows sliding academic performances for US students after the COVID pandemic.

Al Jazeera · Jun 21, 2023