Barasch: Teachers and school leaders need to stop resisting new approaches to math that can help students master the subject.

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are ...

Some students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic ...

With AI’s ability to solve complex math problems in a matter of seconds, it may feel to teachers like the technology is rapidly changing—or will soon—how math is taught. When free and widely ...

It is rare to read about “spectacular progress” or a “once-in-a-century” result in mathematics. That’s for good reason: if a problem has not had a solution for many years, then ...

But it turns out that Navarro’s math, while nonsensical, is even more conservative than Trump’s math. Navarro estimated a little over $1.6 billion a day. Trump almost doubles that — to $3 ...

The formula underpinning President Donald Trump’s new wave of “Liberation Day” tariffs triggered widespread bafflement Thursday, with one CNBC commentator saying it looks like it’s based ...

Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield called geometric measure theory, in which sets of objects are generalized in ...

President Donald Trump’s massive tariffs announced on dozens of nations Wednesday were pitched as “reciprocal,” matching what other countries charge the United States dollar for dollar, even ...

The new U.S. tariffs rattling markets and promising globe-spanning trade barriers reflect a fixation of President Trump’s: the difference between how much stuff the U.S. buys from and sells to ...

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