Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated Devin Kearn’s university affiliation. A recent change to the definition of dyslexia put forth by an international group of researchers and ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

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 ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

U-3 is the official unemployment rate and provides a baseline for understanding the labor market. U-6 offers a more complete picture, including part-time workers and those who have stopped looking for ...

Every math classroom has a range of learners. Some students can compute accurately and efficiently. Others reason through complex problems and generate multiple solutions. Some persevere through tasks ...

A phrase Zohran Mamdani used in 2021 made the rounds in media reports and social media after the 33-year-old won the Democratic primary in the New York City mayoral race. A self-described democratic ...

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As many as 160,000 people will gather Saturday for the 151st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, many in attendance have never attended a horse race and don't know how to bet or ...

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently ...