The addition rule for probabilities determines the chance of either mutually exclusive or overlapping events happening, using ...

More than 60,000 years ago, early humans in southern Africa were carving patterns onto ostrich eggshells—and new research shows these designs were far more sophisticated than previously believed. A ...

Teachers can use these routines to seamlessly integrate SEL into math instruction to boost students’ proficiency and encourage a positive math identity.

Cambridge-born DeepTech company BeyondMath, which has developed a first-of-its-kind generative physics model, has closed a $10 million Seed round extension led by Cambridge Innovation Capital, ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

Meaningful gains under the old regime hinge largely on HRA -- and not everyone may qualify. Nearly 75% taxpayers chose the ...

Math scores across the board have risen in the years after the pandemic, but a stubborn gap remains between poor schools and the state average.

One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

Shana Engel, a teacher in Colorado Springs, talked about how her mother’s struggle to learn English shaped her approach and ...