Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Real Madrid host Atletico Madrid on Sunday before a much-needed two-week break, although many of their players will be on international duty. Two of them will be Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham, ...

This time of year has always been challenging for teachers. I know it was for me. We are past the halfway point in the school year, but right in the middle of the coldest, greyest months in the ...

LIVORNO, Italy – Livorno Elementary Middle School students gathered at the LEMS Media Center on March 13 to lead an immersive math modeling activity. Divided into four specialized teams, the students ...

Leanna Pitsoulakis took a lap around her freshmen honors math class at Carl Sandburg High School, scanning the work spread across each student’s desk before returning to the front of the room with a ...

World Math Day, the Global Mathematics Competition for Students, Starts March 25 in Sydney, Australia – Registration is FREE and Open Now at Mathletics.ca 10 million students have answered over 1 ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Tens of thousands of shoppers are reporting widespread problems using Amazon’s website, according to reports from outage tracker Downdetector. As of 3:45 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 5, reports of ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...