A 37-year-old former Sequoia Station Mathnasium tutor was sentenced to one year in county jail for trying to meet up for sex with a 17-year-old girl with whom he worked, San Mateo County District ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Some say the reason most manhole covers are round is that a circle cannot fall through a smaller circular hole. Which of these other two-dimensional shapes cannot fall through a hole that is the same ...

The idea that we might be living inside a vast computer simulation, much like in The Matrix, has fascinated philosophers and scientists for years. But a new study from researchers at the University of ...

Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

The inspiration for this column comes not from the epic 1999 film The Matrix, as the title may suggest, but from an episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast that I listened to over the summer. The ...

SURREY, England — Your child is struggling with math homework, frustrated with fractions and geometry problems that feel impossible to solve. The solution might not be more worksheets or tutoring ...

Michael Maggart, a high school friend of Anderson’s, has no training or aspirations to be an actor. The director keeps casting him anyway. Michael Maggart at home in Manhattan. His high school friend ...

With the advances in technology, it is noticeable the educational potential of animation in the field of cell biology, physiology and other basic life science disciplines, revolutionizing the learning ...

Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers the math behind it and follows it to places you wouldn’t expect. Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...

Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say. Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars ...