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

A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American. What’s the Most Distant Galaxy ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

Randomly scramble the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to form a seven-digit number (or a six-digit number if the leading digit is 0). Rank the following events in order ...

Sometimes the deepest truths are revealed in the silliest photos. Here are 11 perfectly “silly” photos from this year’s Nature’s Best Photography contest. Every year, Nature’s Best Photography ...

The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher Cara Bearden braces herself for any equation that yields the two numbers, knowing her students will immediately scream them ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...

Micah Parsons made his way to AT&T Stadium on Friday as the Dallas Cowboys hosted the Atlanta Falcons in the 2025 preseason finale. The disgruntled pass rusher has skipped training camp amid a ...

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a formal notice attributing a series of hostile cyber attacks using a variety of malware dubbed Authentic Antics to Russian-state operated ...

Rock star antics will always be a thing, especially on stage. What is rock music if not an outlet for being wild and outside of the norm? That being said, I can’t imagine some of the rock star antics ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...