AI is very good at sounding right even when it's wrong.  Still, if you can't afford to hire a trusted, trained human to help ...

The Washoe County School District is asking for the public’s input as it reviews new high school math instructional materials that could be used in classrooms across the district. WCSD is currently ...

With the rise of AI, business leaders may be wondering: Is it time to outsource math to machines, freeing managers to do more managerial things? Harsha V. Misra is the founder of a private investment ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

This movie starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe looks back at the trials and a psychiatrist who evaluated the defendants. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel music, roots music luminary, world-class entertainer, and singular lead ...

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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 ...

Stanley Jerry Farlow, the author of numerous mathematics textbooks and short story books, retired from teaching right here at the University of Maine in 2014. A Black Bear myself, I was enthralled ...

NATURE AND THE MIND: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being. By Marc G. Berman. Simon and Schuster/Element. 336 pages. $29. Even working in a tense or stressful ...