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Third-year marketing student Ming Xia recently launched Booksmart, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making textbooks ...

In Japan, there’s a term for this phenomenon: tsundoku.

In a world dominated by algorithms, it's common to associate them with a negative bias. Mathematician Clara Grima defends ...

This same principle applies to education: If students never meet resistance from mistakes, they fail to develop the ...

Newly released data from state assessments show just half of Illinois public school students could read at grade level and ...

A former math hater offers tips that just might turn math dread into something less — or maybe even math love.

An associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has publicly called former President Donald Trump a racist and ...

Australia's engineering skills gap and labor shortage is the highest it's been for more than a decade. New Swinburne research ...

Practice and homework book for Grade 7 students focusing on math concepts and skills.

Alfred Nobel's prestigious awards honor many fields but notably exclude mathematics. This has sparked curiosity for years. While popular myths about personal rivalries exist, historical research ...