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It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

A UW-Madison associate dean claims the American education system and mathematics are "inherently violent" toward Black students in a controversial academic paper.

Nationwide, U.S. math scores have plunged to historic lows, and experts warn California students are not immune. The 2024 ...

From exposing rigged maps to simulating fairer voting systems, math might be democracy’s most overlooked weapon.

"If we don’t act now, we will lose the financial stability that makes every other dream possible," Ward 12 Minneapolis City ...

What calculations determine who ends up in parliament? Mathematician Filip Moons dug into the numbers behind the Dutch electoral system and even wrote a book about it: From Vote to Seat (Van Stem tot ...

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that's because it was.

How sports betting monitors used math to catch Terry Rozier and dozens of others accused of fixing bets on basketball.

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

College Algebra is a major barrier to degree completion, but redesigning math experiences to focus on real-world applications can help students develop the skills they need to succeed in their ...