The Latest Breaking News from Math

ChatGPT could revolutionize financial planning, but it won't replace human guidance.

The Girls Maths trend is blowing up on social media, here we explain what it is and the financial lessons it can teach your kids

Raja Anirudh Sriram, a fourth-standard student of Tirupati, has bagged a silver medal at the Singapore International Math Olympiad Challenge (SIMOC) held recently. The eight-year-old was the lone participant from Andhra Pradesh among the 23 Indians who attended the event. More than 2000 students from 32 countries participated in the…

The amusing trend is mostly a joke, but it’s also twenty-year-olds’ response to overwhelming financial stress.

‘What a horrible way to start a school year,’ said math teacher Susan Casey, who taught Serabi Medina last year. Serabi, who was slain, was remembered by those who knew her as a funny and outgoing child.

Post-pandemic, some educators are trying to reengage students with technology – like videos, computer gaming or artificial intelligence, just to name a few. But integrating these approaches in the classroom can be an uphill battle. Teachers using these tools often struggle to retain students’ attention, competing with the latest social…

Test results have gone up since the pandemic in both subjects, but math scores are still below 2019 levels and about half of Texas students read below the level appropriate for most children in their grade.

The California math-rock dynamos write songs that are “simultaneously challenging, creative, and audibly pleasing – or shocking”: Aric Garcia and Shane Gann explain how their Double Dragon-inspired guitar tag team gives Hail the Sun a six-string approach like no other

Viral trend follows on from Girl Dinner and Barbie

The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of different cultures into an American soup. An update for the 2020s might be “open source,” where cultural mixing, sharing and collaborating can build bridges between people rather than create divides.

In math class, you probably learned how to compute the area of lots of different shapes by memorizing algebraic formulas. Remember “base x height” for rectangles and “½ base x height” for triangles? Or “𝜋 x radius²” for circles?