The Toronto Raptors have a math problem. In an NBA landscape that increasingly has gone three-point crazy over the past decade, the Raptors greatly prefer to launch shots of the two-point variety. As ...
You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...
Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far ...
Forbes launched an inaugural quality ranking of U.S. general acute care hospitals Dec. 4, which analyzes data on outcomes, best practices, value and patient experience. The media company said its list ...
In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...
For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...
A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...
In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...
Warning signs will mean almost nothing to drivers if they are going to be in place long before any traffic-calming infrastructure can be installed, according to Sasha Gollish, a civil engineer and ...
The Rochester, N.Y., philanthropist Tom Golisano announced Tuesday morning that he is launching the Golisano Children’s Alliance and pledging a total of $253 million to six children’s hospitals ...
The casual observer might have thought the Toronto Raptors’ defensive pressure against the Atlanta Hawks wasn’t working. The Raptors couldn’t stop fouling and were in the bonus after six minutes of ...