Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to need remedial math ...

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Leeds is set to become the UK's first City of Maths, a new two-year initiative aimed at transforming the way people think and feel about the subject. Launching in January, it will bring events ...

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 ...

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently ...

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A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...

Maths phobia is older than you might think. A hundred years ago, German physicist Felix Auerbach, lamenting the phenomenon and hoping to find ways to address it, wrote a little book called The Fear of ...

America’s top colleges and finance-industry recruiters have long had their eye on teenage whiz-kids who compete in a prestigious high-school math contest. Now, allegations of cheating are threatening ...

Academic progress is heading in the wrong direction in the years since the pandemic. Students are falling further behind as schools face the impending loss of COVID-19 relief funding aimed at helping ...