India celebrates National Mathematics Day on December 22 to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. He shaped twentieth-century mathematics with his ...

Purdue basketball is putting up impressive statistics. In schools, those stats are being used to expand students' math skills ...

IISc physicists discovered that Ramanujan’s classic π-formulas arise naturally in modern theories describing critical phenomena and black holes. The connection suggests his early mathematics may have ...

(THE REPORTER) — Now that everyone has mini-supercomputers that pretend to be phones in their pockets, it can be challenging to get young people to learn problem-solving skills that do not involve ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

Call it graduation inflation. The latest California School Dashboard, compiled by the state Board of Education, showed the graduation rate for all students rose to 87.8% in 2025, up 1 percentage point ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

Sheila Hardin doesn’t teach high school math for the money or for the fame — though she’s at least got the latter. In October, the Oak Park River Forest High School veteran of 31 years was named the ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. North Carolina is overhauling its math standards, with major changes potentially coming to the courses students take in high school.

Member schools of the N.C. High School Athletic Association wanted to adjust the RPI formula and got their wish over the offseason. The old formula leaned more upon schools' strength of schedule than ...

JEFFERSON HILLS, Pa. — Thirty-one years ago, Bill Cherpak began his coaching career at Thomas Jefferson High School, something he didn’t have in the cards. “I never thought I’d even be coaching,” said ...