Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis was deemed to be un-testable in philosophy and science and often dismissed as pure ...

Brain scans show that most of us have a built-in capacity to learn to code, rooted in the brain’s logic and reasoning ...

Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, nestled in the Timbergrove neighborhood of Houston, just north of downtown, enrolls some ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de ...

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is mostly due to a research article published by Apple, "The Illusion of ...

Both Republicans and Democrats have said STAAR sets students up for failure, raising questions about basing a state takeover on the test’s results.

Underlying the positivist project was the rationalist assumption that we could overcome the flaws of human nature with ...

Besides, America recently ran a very large natural experiment in dropping money on schools that, in a word, failed. During ...

How sports betting monitors used math to catch Terry Rozier and dozens of others accused of fixing bets on basketball.