Former chief economist for TD Bank, Don Drummond, who also held a number of senior roles in the Department of Finance, told CBC News that analyzing big numbers and complicated economic models is hard ...

Can you solve the elementary school problem that divided the internet in less than 30 seconds? Test your might in this ...

Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated as out of reach. Systems tuned for symbolic reasoning are now cracking long ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

DEXTER – Daryl Kipke saw the vision before Mateo could. The father and son were driving to Dexter High School during Mateo’s freshman year when the two had a conversation that shaped Mateo’s future as ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

NASHUA, N.H. -- Pinkerton Academy's quest for a second straight football state title came to a painful end on Saturday afternoon. Top-seeded Bedford scored touchdowns on its first five possessions of ...

I hear those three words all the time at the elementary school where I teach. So many students say they hate it that I started asking why. Their answers are almost always the same: Math is hard. Math ...

Meditate on this Zen Buddhist koan (a paradox used to train Zen Buddhist monks) long enough, promises neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin at the start of his book, and the origins of mind, and perhaps ...

Taxes are hard. Math is harder. But the way U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., see it, it shouldn’t have to be that way. A bipartisan measure that would make it easier for ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...