Forest Brook Middle School made a remarkable jump in the state's academic rating system last year. The Houston Landing ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use ...

If you want to debate whether one investment yielding 4.5% is better than a less risky investment yielding 4.2%, you can usually count on an answer from Christine Benz, who writes a regular column ...

Researchers like Mr. Achim are beginning to address these problems through mathematics. With math, you can formally prove whether an answer is right or wrong. About a decade ago, a Microsoft ...

Right, knelt down on one knee, and promptly got rejected. The best-choice problem doesn’t cover cases where opportunities may turn you down. Perhaps it’s best we leave math out of romance.

Amy Banks, who is listed as a 7th-grade math teacher at Woodbury School in the Salem School District reportedly used the “N-word” in a rant that has been making the rounds on social media.

Rather than a grand restaging of previous finals between historic giants, it was merely a showcase of profound modern problems with the game’s economic framework. The Champions League itself ...

The French government, which missed a deadline this week to show how it would cut its debt and deficit, is struggling to meet fiscal requirements set by the E.U. By Liz Alderman Reporting from ...

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