The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to need remedial math ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

For many individuals, growing uncomfortable with mathematics often starts in early childhood when they receive a worksheet with numbers on it. At this point in life, there may be feelings of panic, ...

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For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

New Jersey students are testing at pre-pandemic levels in one subject — science — while continuing to struggle in other areas, according to new data released by the state Board of Education this week.

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 ...

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 ...

BRIDGEWATER, NJ – The second part of the 2024–2025 Standardized Assessment report for the Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District was delivered to the board of education. Jason Mauriello, the ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

WATCHUNG – The results of the Spring 2025 New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA), presented to the grades K-8 Board of Education on Thursday, Sept. 16, showed that students across grades 3 ...

LONG HILL TWP. – Student performance on the New Jersey Standardized Learning Assessment (NJSLA) varied considerably back in the spring, but, according to a presentation given at the Board of Education ...