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There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

I hear those three words all the time at the elementary school where I teach. So many students say they hate it that I started asking why. Their answers are almost always the same: Math is hard. Math ...

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The Senate passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act despite the government shutdown, following the bill's passage back in April by the House, sending it to President Trump for ...

In Brookline, at the corner of Beacon and Washington Street, shiny SUVs pull up to a nondescript yellow building. Kids hurry out of the cars, and teachers usher them through the building’s glass doors ...

You're probably wasting money on SD cards. As a camera reviewer, I have plenty of reasons to buy pricey cards, but for most shutterbugs and family historians, it's not necessary. Images, and the ...

A confused dad has been left stumped by his 10-year-old son’s math homework, so he’s turned to the internet for help. The American father took to Reddit after being left puzzled by a multiple-choice ...

Editor's note: We've updated this story with the phrase "unidentified anomalous phenomena," NASA's most recent term for unidentified aerial phenomena. When NASA asked Boston University space physicist ...

Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at [email protected]. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper ...

It's flattering when your kids are little, they think you know everything, until you try to help them with their math homework. "She tells me, 'Mom, Mom, this is not correct,'" said Virginie ...