Dar es Salaam. In a country where many students fear mathematics and view it as one of the toughest school subjects, the Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (IED, ...

The strength of certain neural connections can predict how well someone can learn math, and mildly electrically stimulating these networks can boost learning, according to a study published in the ...

It’s not a random choice, and in fact, the history of ice cubes is a lot (ahem) cooler than you probably think.

BOWLING GREEN, KY.- MIT undergraduate students biking across the United States made a special stop in Bowling Green to ...

A student works a problem in a second grade math class at Place Bridge Academy, May 20, 2025, in Denver. Early experiences with math can shape whether a student decides they're a "math person" or not.

The median math score for the most recently enrolled undergraduate class at Harvard College was 790 out of 800 on the SATs and 35 out of 36 on the ACTs. The average high school GPA was 4.2.

A new study introduces choice engineering—a powerful new way to guide decisions using math instead of guesswork. By applying carefully designed mathematical models, researchers found they could ...

These shapes were driven to gyrate by a motor, replicating the motions we take when hula hooping. Hoops approximately 6 inches in diameter were launched on these bodies, with high-speed video ...

One day out of the blue she e-mailed Domokos a picture of a cross section of a nautilus shell. Domokos replied that it was a nice example of 2D soft cells. Regős wrote back: no, they were ...

The shape doesn’t have a common name—and today in the age of “I can look it up on the Internet,” if something doesn’t have a name, it’s hard to Google it.