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Gyaltsan (center) teaches students how to use his multiplication chart at a primary school in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region. [Photo by PALDEN NYIMA/CHINA DAILY] Gyaltsan, a Tibetan man from Nyingchi ...

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

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

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 ...

There is much blaming and finger-pointing as to why the U.S. isn’t doing better. Some experts say that parents are allowing kids to spend too much time on screens, while others argue that elementary ...

What calculations determine who ends up in parliament? Mathematician Filip Moons dug into the numbers behind the Dutch electoral system and even wrote a book about it: From Vote to Seat (Van Stem tot ...

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

Ask someone to name the most important physicist of the 20 th century, and they will almost certainly say Albert Einstein. Ask the same question about the field of mathematics, however, and you will ...

A new tax break allows deductions on interest paid on new car loans for vehicles assembled in the U.S. until 2028. Experts believe the tax break is unlikely to significantly shift the market in favor ...