As part of the experiment, teachers were encouraged to limit screen use in the classroom and to set aside unstructured time for movement and play. Outside of school, families took part in free ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

The nation’s most powerful teachers’ unions remain consumed by political activism as reading scores hit new lows.

Term 2 is often where the pressure starts to show in schools. While learners are in the thick of the mid-year exam period, they, along with teachers and parents, are trying to balance new curriculum ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

Replacing a $110,000 salary entirely through portfolio income is a math problem before it becomes an investment problem. On a $1.85 million portfolio, generating that level of income requires a yield ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Mayor Mamdani and city Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels on May 21 announced the expansion of two reading and math curriculum ...

A middle-class American couple in their late 60s faces a retirement problem that has become increasingly common. They have ...

Nine students from Don Gill Elementary and Rock L. Butler Middle School represented the Wellsboro Area School District at the first-ever 24 Math Challenge competition, held on Thursday, May 14 ...

To the Point host Alex Bell sat down with California’s governor candidates to hear directly from them about their priorities ...

Understanding the gap between how today's parents learned math and how their children are being taught, and how to work with ...