Adults are in a sense condoning cheating so Nevada students can earn a diploma. Earn is an extremely charitable word. More than a thousand seniors will be handed their certificate of completing high ...

Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society. Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society. The Open Mind is available ...

In science and mathematics, it has been a fairly common occurrence for two different people/teams to be working on the same problem, and invent the same solution. After all, both fields are concerned ...

Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in ...

California math educators this fall have been locked in a vigorous debate: Will the implementation of a new law help more community college STEM students by skipping prerequisites and placing them ...

A seemingly easy-looking math sum has left people scratching their heads as it proves to be more challenging than anticipated. The brain teaser, was shared this week on X by user @BholanathDutta and ...

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In popular literature written by pedlars of postmodern nonsense, Austrian logician Kurt Gödel is often said to have destroyed mathematical certainty with his incompleteness theorems – which say there ...

In his new book, In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, Ian Stewart recounts one of the worst jokes in the history of science. You can develop your own setup from first ...

The tournament is in two parts - a morning, individual competition and an afternoon, team competition. The morning competition is a 90 minute multiple choice calculus exam. Once the morning exam has ...