Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...

A team of Wyomissing High School students won the 43rd annual regional MATHCOUNTS competition at Penn State Berks. MATHCOUNTS competitions are high-energy, multilevel math contests for sixth through ...

Say “speed skating” out loud. There, you just covered the difference between success and failure in the Olympics. Four years of training, four years of work, four years of hopes and dreams … and you ...

A mathematical trick speeds up seismic calculations for earthquake simulations and could revolutionize earthquake preparedness.

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

Abstract: We present a multi-way parallel corpus of Math Word Problems (MWPs) in nine languages, including six low-resource languages. To date, this is the largest multilingual MWP dataset available.

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Friday he will oppose President Donald Trump’s Federal Reserve chair pick until a Justice Department probe into current Fed chief Jerome Powell “is fully and ...

During my time as a learning support math teacher, I always had a daily word problem on my board for students to work on when they first walked into my classroom. To be completely honest, this ...