Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

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Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new evolutionary partition based method to tackle complex combinatorial optimization problems, such as a class of scheduling problems with hard Q-time constraints. The ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

Can you solve the elementary school problem that divided the internet in less than 30 seconds? Test your might in this ...

A New Jersey mom found herself so confused by her six-year-old daughter’s math homework, she had to ask the teacher for help. The school year is a stressful time for parents. A 2025 Ipsos survey of ...

Abstract: The hypergraph partitioning problem with the goal of minimizing the cut-size has extensive applications in the field of EDA. As an NP-hard problem, the industry commonly uses heuristic-based ...

Chalkbeat Ideas is a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. An obscure university report has ...