Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its ...

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 ...

What do you need to know about the IRS Math and Taxpayer Help Act? What is the status of the reforms contained within the provisions of H.R. 998? Important Takeaways About the IRS Math and Taxpayer ...

Washington has an urgent math problem. Nearly one in three students cannot demonstrate basic grade-level skills, and among low-income students it’s almost one in two. In a state that prides itself on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustrative Mathematics was established in 2011 at the University of Arizona as a means to assist schools in adopting the Common ...

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 ...

When you follow Einstein’s math step by step, you enter a world where intuition starts to break down. His equations of relativity reveal that time slows down near massive objects, space itself bends ...

A mere one in five (22%) seniors tested as "proficient" in math, and just a third (35%) in reading. Seventyfour - stock.adobe.com Here’s one more reason to detest teacher unions and other special ...

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — On a night when the WNBA's biggest stars shared a single stage, a single wardrobe choice put their future in the spotlight. During warm-ups for the WNBA All-Star game in Indianapolis on ...