Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today ...

New poll shows California educators trail other states in access to curriculum and other tools that are aligned to best ...

A shocking revelation has exposed a critical gap in South Africa’s education system, with 464 public schools no longer ...

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...

The researchers propose an expanded definition of arithmetic fluency to include not only ... The researchers—all experts on ...

University of Chicago Prof. Frank Calegari has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. The first members elected ...

The government has made an about-turn and announced that all learners in senior school will learn mathematics regardless of the pathway they choose to pursue. Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba ...

It was to settle a legal dispute between the Scottish government and the campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) dating back to 2018, relating to the definition of a "woman". Specifically ...

The group initially challenged the definition of the term "woman" as included in Scottish legislation from 2018, which set targets to increase the proportion of women serving on public bodies.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the definition of a woman and sex in the Equality Act relates to "a biological woman and biological sex". UK Supreme Court judge Lord Hodge, who announced the ...

The legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act relates to biological sex, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. The landmark decision follows a long-running challenge brought by women's rights ...

Israeli-American mathematician Dennis Gaitsgory was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his role in the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture in early April. Gaitsgory has ...