South Dakota's proposed math standards are sparking debate, with critics saying they're too simple and lack guidance.

The effort follows earlier battles over social studies and could spread to other states reviewing academic standards.

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Apple's sophisticated Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps are free and work seamlessly across the company's devices, though we ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning.  The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in ...

The latest string of layoff announcements has stoked fears of an AI-powered jobs apocalypse, though the sectors seeing big losses echo a previous warning from tech billionaire Peter Thiel. “It seems ...

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