ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. — St. Pete Beach hotels and businesses must have all signs or posts on the sand near the water removed by Tuesday night. City commissioners passed an emergency beach ordinance ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

The Twins have spent much of the season trying to convince fans to come back to Target Field. The problem is that the numbers ...

End-of-the-year student data presented to the Wenatchee School Board on Tuesday showed some growth in reading and math test ...

What Is It? Dyscalculia in children is a specific learning disability that affects a child’s ability to understand and work with numbers. Often compared to dyslexia, which impacts reading skills, ...

Across the front, it declares in italic script, “I’m too pretty to do math”. While some may see it as a joke, it is sparking ...

Average math scores for 9- and 13-year-olds in the U.S. remain lower than they were 10 years ago, according to 2025 federal testing data released Wednesday — a warning sign not only for schools, but ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Last week I explained how a then 25-year-old ...