The “six-seven” shrug—so viral that it has been tapped as the 2025 Word of the Year by Dictionary.com—is the latest of the unending stream of nonsensical jokes, rituals, and competitions that spread ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

President Donald Trump was expected to sign a “Ways and Means Bill,” focused on “protecting taxpayer rights” by requiring the IRS to “show its math when changing returns,” according to a news release ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

NEW YORK — South Korean infielder Sung-mun Song is entering Major League Baseball’s posting system and will be available for teams to sign from Saturday through Dec. 21. Song hit .315 with a ...

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 ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

Breaking Rust is breaking hearts — but he’s totally fake. “Walk My Walk,” an AI-generated track from the AI artist Breaking Rust, has topped the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart since the ...

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

From exposing rigged maps to simulating fairer voting systems, math might be democracy’s most overlooked weapon. Neuroscientist Sam Wang shows how numbers can fight power games. Andrew ‘given ...

Check for your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs. Fierce, fearless, and unapologetically authentic, Aries thrives on bold self-expression. You don’t wait for permission, you go. Lady Gaga’s anthem of ...