Not just a problem to solve or a challenge to overcome, but a real antagonist. Someone who opposes what is good, threatens ...

For most people, solving a problem is the reward—the relief of being done, the achievement of having figured it out.

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Write a story in which the narrator refuses to tell the story. Permit the narrator to come close to telling the story—perhaps ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

Private equity money has flowed into so many parts of this economy — skilled trades like plumbing, restaurant chains, even youth sports. And now, companies backed by private equity are making ...

Residents cheered Wednesday night at the Phillipsburg Senior Center as the town council considered an ordinance to remove an all-way stop sign at the corner of Raymond Street and Summit Avenue. The ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Illustrated by Remi Jose and co-written by Vicky Fang, 'Spaghetti Code' is the first in a series of five books for young readers Courtesy ...

Four years after the pandemic emergency ended and K-12 performance plunged nationwide, New Jersey’s third through eighth graders are finally edging up to be on par with pre-pandemic levels, although ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MINN. – There are too many patches of woods around this northwestern Minnesota town of 8,800 people to see a dramatic vista of one of the largest buildings in Minnesota. But that’s ...