A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations without using radicals or irrational numbers. The method developed by ...

High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, most do not. Algebra I is the single most failed course in American high schools.

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...

Complete your B.A. in Computer Science at the Madrid campus. You can also transfer freely between SLU's Madrid and the St. Louis campuses. This Bachelor of Arts is often combined with another major or ...

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Some good news for science and math teachers: Most Americans say they liked math and science in school. That’s one of the findings in a new survey by the Pew Research Center, which conducted a ...

The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the sixth-grade level, according to new research. When asked to estimate the grade they’d be placed into for both math and ...

For her pioneering work in computer science, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D. has been dubbed the “queen of code” by her biographers. Yet, beneath that crown was the brain of a mathematician, ...