Suppose you're standing at the top of a high ladder, fixing a roof. Suddenly, a tool slips from your grasp, threatening to fall. Before you can think about it, you stretch awkwardly to grab it, slip, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

Get ready for a math problem that will blow your mind as the solution unfolds step by step. This video challenges intuition, reveals clever insights, and showcases the beauty of mathematical reasoning ...

It’s that time of year again when high school seniors who applied to their top-choice college via early decision (a binding process in which students agree to attend if accepted) are beginning to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Learn how to slow down, challenge assumptions, and pinpoint what’s really going wrong. Corey Phelps, the dean of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, says great problem solvers are hard to find.

Retirement Systems of Alabama CEO David Bronner said Tuesday the Legislature faces hard decisions on education funding in 2026 because of rising health insurance costs and other pressing needs.

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

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Trent Grisham’s return to the Yankees has left some fans upset — while others are inconceivably outraged. One such fan called into WFAN on Tuesday evening to air his grievances — of which he had ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...