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 ...

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 ...

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...

Wyoming — Landen Lee looked to his classmates Liliya Zuidema and Morgan Cramer while investigating an algebra problem. “The pattern is going up by 400,” he said, as the trio compared numbers on a ...

NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) - For investors with portfolios of individual company stocks, Wall Street's record-breaking rise is boosting the attractiveness of an options strategy that helps them hedge ...

Five strategies to drive bold action amid uncertainty. by Ranjay Gulati In the face of political, economic, and technological uncertainty, business leaders are often reluctant to take bold action.

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. True Tamplin is on a mission to bring financial literacy into schools. An investment strategy is the set of principles you follow ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, show eighth-graders' science scores have fallen 4 points since 2019 and ...