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 ...
When: School District of Lancaster school board meeting, Sept. 23. What happened: Elyse Minder, a J.P. McCaskey math teacher, has been named a finalist for the federal Presidential Awards for ...
An excerpt from Monday's long decision by Judge Douglas Cole (S.D. Ohio) in Cahall v. Cole New Richmond Exempted Village School Dist. Bd. of Ed.: Plaintiff Karen Cahall is a third-grade math and ...
Every summer, scores of tourists take to the bustling streets of Barcelona, a city known for its breathtaking architecture. Nicolás Atanes Santos, a young Spanish mathematician, sees this as an ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Last week, ABC7 Chicago's Rob Elgas and Mark Rivera revisited their old high school in Crystal Lake. Now, Cheryl Burton is going back to school. On this Feel Good Friday, Burton is ...
Newly released data from a crucial national test revealed historically low scores in two major subjects for 12th graders across the country, further emphasizing that U.S. students have struggled to ...
That’s how experts describe the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the “nation’s report card.” Considered a highly accurate window into student ...
While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...
Researchers suspect energy failures in brain “power plants” may explain why memory pathways collapse so early in Alzheimer’s. Credit: Shutterstock Virginia Tech scientists are probing how ...
Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...
New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, show eighth-graders’ science scores have fallen 4 points since 2019 and ...
Students at Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) scored higher than the state average on annual standardized tests during the 2024-2025 school year, but scores show only 57% of MCPS students are ...