Warp drive has long lived in the realm of starships and scriptwriters, but the equations behind it are starting to look less like fantasy and more like a difficult engineering problem. The latest ...

Playing linear number board games, those where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can significantly ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Playing number board games for just ten minutes helps young children build strong early math skills supporting economic ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

American students have fallen further behind in reading skills since the pandemic and have made little progress in math on the standardized test known as the nation’s report card. Results released ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.