California may soon test children on math as early as kindergarten in effort to curb dismal scores

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

A Dad Discovered His Daughter Had Been Failing Math Quietly for a Semester After Finding Her Report Card Hidden Under Her Mattress

When Jason bent down to help his daughter search for a missing library book, he expected to find old toys, forgotten socks, ...
The 74Opinion

The Real Problem With ‘Gifted’ Education

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Katie Arnold-Ratliff wrote a ...

Opinion: The Real Problem With ‘Gifted’ Education

Katie Arnold-Ratliff wrote a cover story for New York Magazine criticizing New York City’s gifted and talented program in ...
Crypto Briefing

Trump wants housing prices to go up, and Morgan Stanley says affordable housing may never come back

Trump openly prioritizes rising home prices for existing owners while Morgan Stanley warns US housing affordability may never ...
Scientific American

The math behind the universe's symmetry

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

Deep-crater nuclear blasts could defend Earth against asteroids

A large asteroid does not need to hit Earth to expose a hard truth: the most dangerous space rocks may be the ones spotted ...
JD Supra

When Claims and Litigation Surge, Something Has to Give — It Doesn’t Have to Be Quality

There is a version of this that happens slowly. Social inflation pushes up severity. Filing rates tick upward quarter over ...
Fireship on MSN

They Offered $1 Million For This Math Problem - Then Something Happened No One Thought Would

The P vs NP problem is a fundamental question in computer science, unproven for decades, with immense consequences. If ...