Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

Mike Braun's property tax cuts gutted local budgets and cost 13,000 jobs. His plan to exempt retirees and paid-off homeowners ...

Get your timer out and see whether you can remember the golden rule from grade school math class.

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

America’s newest Federal Reserve Chair did not get a quiet start. Kevin Warsh was sworn in on May 22, three weeks ago, as the 17th Fed Chair. The youngest Fed governor ever appointed when he first ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

"We don't do debt anymore," Dave Ramsey declared on a recent episode of The Ramsey Show after coaching a caller through his debt snowball method. His core philosophy is simple: Borrowing is the enemy, ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...