👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! In a scene that brings new meaning to “scattered, smothered and covered,” French fries and onions washed up on a beach in England. Volunteers helped clean up the mess after ...

The Pensacola News Journal is working with high schools in Escambia and Santa Rosa County to put their top students in the ...

The Math Enthusiasts Club provides a space for students to explore math beyond the classroom in a collaborative environment.

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

The findings come from a major, yearlong “premortem” conducted by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education.

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

As the regular application deadlines approach this month, getting into college is top of mind for many high school seniors. But students assume that if a college admits them, it means the school has ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

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 ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds on itself. What does that mean? It means that ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...