Mathematics News

The news New Zealand has plunged in the OECD's Pisa league table, which ranks the educational performance of 15-year-olds around the world, has sparked an outburst of breast-beating and blame.

I'm trying to write a chess simulation where entity's ratings are emergent out of pairings where the results are based on comparison of various statistics.

The gap between American high school students and teens in other developed countries is widening when it comes to literacy in mathematics according to results from the Program for International Student Assessment .

During most of the 20th century, wages in the United States were set not just by employers but by a mix of market and institutional mechanisms.

In 2009, the natural sciences library at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was one of the first in the country to lend laptops to faculty and students.

The Arkansas Razorbacks lost to both Mississippi schools this year in football, but at least the state leads in another, more important area: the number of adults age 25-64 with college degrees.

We live in world where speed and change are no longer the exception, they are the norm.

Although it's a great place to live, Illinois can sometimes be a seriously dangerous place to work, and no one knows this better that our Illinois workers compensation lawyers .

If you're looking for "a whole new way of killing cancer," don't turn to the journals.

Emily Koenders writes that she is working on a paper on gematria in rabbinic literature and wonders if I can help her locate the talmudic sources of three examples of it.

We lived in Highgate, in north London. My sister Mary was born 18 months after me, and I'm told I did not welcome her arrival.

Farmingdale State College sophomore Javier Garcia took first place in the 2013 annual U.S. National Collegiate Mathematics Championship, part of the Mathematical Association of America's conference, Mathfest, held in Hartfod, Conn.

"I have not time. I have not time," he scribbled frantically in the margins. Years of studying and formulating mathematical concepts, years of developing a method to solve higher order equations all would be forfeited if he failed to complete this letter before the dawn.

As part of their first anniversary celebrations, the Museum of Mathematics and about 500 math enthusiasts of all ages proved that New York's iconic Flatiron building is approximately in the shape of a very special type of right triangle.

In spite of a decline in statistical data, teen pregnancy rates in the U.S. are considered higher than any other developed country, including Canada and the UK.

When Marriotts Ridge High School senior Min Ji Kim wants to get the teacher's attention in her differential equations class, she raises her hand.

A few weeks ago a group of senior mathematicians, teachers, statisticians, and curriculum developers met in Boston to discuss the future of high school mathematics, revisiting issues addressed by a 2008 conference organized by the Center for Mathematics Education at the University of Maryland.

The class is made up of the stuff of classes everywhere. Workbooks piled atop textbooks and notebooks, Ugg boots and sneakers swinging beneath round tables, pencils applied carefully to graph paper.

Because Katie Couric did a show giving voice to meritless anti-vaccine forces , people are going to die.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are investigating the complex relationships between the spread of the HIV virus in a population and the actual, rapid evolution of the virus within each patient's body.