Two-way contracts allow NBA teams to carry three extra players in addition to the 15 on their regular season roster. These ...

During World War II, statistics helped the Allies estimate the number of enemy tanks, which proved essential in the decisive ...

In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber Simpson, associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders pressed RFK Jr. on Capitol Hill about the Trump administration's exaggerated claims of lowering drug prices since launching TrumpRx.com Stefani ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump had “a different way of calculating” percentages, sharing a baffling system that allowed the ...

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...

A fifth-grade student in Ellanise Hines’ class works on calculating the volume of a prism. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...

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 ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...