Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing’s Math

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all.

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Moon Duchin on the Math of Gerrymandering

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex.

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What Declines in Reading and Math Mean for the U.S. Work Force

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed.

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What Declines in Reading and Math Mean for the U.S. Work Force

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed.

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Eugenia Cheng Says You Don’t Need to Be Good at Math to Enjoy It

In her latest book, Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician, explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — are equal.

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N.Y.C. Schools Change How Reading Is Taught, and Test Scores Rise

Mayor Adams cast the upswing as evidence of efforts to improve instruction, while rivals in the mayoral race argued that teachers need better training.

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Google A.I. System Wins Gold In International Math Olympiad

OpenAI said it, too, had built a system that achieved similar results.

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Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discoveries?

Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.

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Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers

More than half of the National Science Foundation grants terminated since April fund programs that would help students train in science, engineering and math.

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The Pandemic Is Not the Only Reason U.S. Students Are Losing Ground

For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed.

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