For nearly 60 years, the “moving sofa problem,” a long-standing mathematical puzzle, remained unsolved. Last year, a Korean ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Dive into one of the most wicked geometry problems and see it explained step by step in a clear, intuitive way. This lesson ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to send Americans $2,000 checks funded by his sweeping tariffs is under fire for not adding up. Trump, 79, pledged to send rebates to U.S. citizens who are “low and ...