On Thursday, in a post on X, Warren said that her new bill ensures that a “math mistake” in tax filings does not cost taxpayers “a fortune or hours of work.” The legislation essentially mandates the ...

Reading a policy document can feel like trying to decode a different language. Many people in India quickly scan the premium and hospital list, then skim past terms such as deductible, copay and ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...

Thanks to the IRS MATH Act, the IRS must now explain mistakes in plain English, show any adjustments, and put your 60-day appeal deadline front and center. It will be a major upgrade from previously ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...

A privately funded nonprofit is running TV and radio ads for Gov. Dan McKee's "Math Matters" campaign. The ads feature various professionals explaining the importance of math in their jobs but do not ...

The U.S. Senate on Monday passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, H.R. 998, which, among other changes, requires the IRS to provide taxpayers ...

It’s a killer pitch: Turn plastic waste into gasoline using only* the power of the sun. And that’s exactly what serial entrepreneur Julian Brown (@naturejab_ on Instagram) claims to be doing, using ...