Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The El Paso Zoo’s veterinary team is providing care to a lethargic bald eagle, according to the zoo’s Facebook post on Wednesday, Dec. 31. Someone first reported the sick bird ...

For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

Philly AIDS Thrift celebrated its 20 years of turning secondhand treasures into life-saving support on Saturday. What began in 2005 as a tiny storefront, originally on Bainbridge Street — founded by ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...