You get smart. Then you get uncomfortably smart. That rare, off-the-charts, stop-everyone-in-their-tracks type of intelligence that is both a wonder and a ‘WTH?!’ to witness. From a guy who struggled ...

Digital platforms such as the government's SWAYAM portal provide students with a range of resources. In an era where education is rapidly shifting to digital platforms, integrating technology into ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

Although not a household scientific name like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan—who tragically died in 1920 at the age of 32—was one of the greatest minds in ...

A collage of a young girl solving math problems using a marker and a young boy reading a math book. Chad Aldeman for The 74 Originally published on the74million.org, part of the BLOX Digital Content ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...

Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers. John Qian, a co-founder of Matrices. The new shadow sites are part of ...

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 ...

When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

At Izetta Sparks Elementary, mornings are for math. "Mrs. Newcomb went to the candy store and bought 43 bags of sour gummy worms..." said Alyssa Newcomb while standing at the smart board, introducing ...