Mathematics News

RobotsLAB's Box kit includes four robots and a tablet loaded with a Common Core-specific curriculum.

Suffolk has been ranked as the joint fourth-worst authority in England for primary school education after figures showed nearly one in three pupils failed standard maths and English exams.

The trailer for The Time of the Doctor, the Christmas Special of the hit BBC programme, shows non-stop action and emotional scenes as we prepare to bid farewell to Matt Smith This year's results show 81 schools have moved down at least one band from 2012, whilst 71 schools have moved up at least one band.

Alisha Sharif got 1,000 out 1,000 correct - and in the quickest time - to triumph in the Sumdog mathematics contest which was open to children aged up to 16. Bob Curran, who is Alisha's head teacher at St Matthew's Primary School in Mayo Avenue, Bradford, said: "We knew she was a very good mathematician and we are really thrilled she has won this ... (more)

Tests of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment are administered once every three years.

Colby College will receive a $10-million gift from the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund supporting a new science building, President William D. Adams announced Dec. 4 at a meeting of Colby's faculty.

Over seventy-five years ago, with humble beginnings, brothers Ernest and Julio Gallo began E. & J. Gallo Winery.

In my article accompanying our "50 Greatest Inventions [since the wheel]" project last month, I said that since such a list was inevitably arbitrary, its real value would be the discussion it provoked about what else could have been considered and why.

Post-doctoral Fellow in fMRI Research The Estelle and Daniel Maggin Department of Neurology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, New York is offering a full time position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

The payroll jobs report for November from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that the US economy created 203,000 jobs in November.

The lucky six were in attendance during a recent winter holiday awards dinner, where the community grants were doled out.

On January 1, 2014, the international project "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013" will continue as "Mathematics of Planet Earth" .

The new PISA study, administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , showed that American students still lag behind their international peers in mathematics.

Many arguments were thrown out by some of the country's best lawyers in Tuesday's hearing on whether to overturn the Beit Shemesh elections and order new elections.

A university student graduating from a four-year programme would be expected to have acquired the body of existing knowledge that would serve him/her in his/her workplace.

For most of the last two years, economists and politicians have been arguing about whether the slowly falling U.S. unemployment rate, seemingly a sign of health, is actually a statistical mirage created by the long-term jobless as they give up hope and leave the workforce.

AstroML is a Python module for machine learning and data mining built on numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, and matplotlib, and distributed under the 3-Clause BSD license.

Connor MacKenzie , a Westminster College senior mathematics major, was recently notified that one of his mathematics research papers was accepted for publication in the Journal of Classical Analysis .

Margaret Bailey was the first woman and African American woman in the southeastern U.S. to complete the pipe fitter's public apprenticeship program.

AnnMaria De Mars' company was awarded a $450,000 Small Business Innovation Research award from the USDA to further develop a game that teaches elementary students mathematics through 3-D adventure gaming .