A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

Many basic life skills seem harder for children to master now compared to the past. Some teachers think this is because of an ...

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping work—especially in technical and knowledge-intensive fields—by automating routine tasks and increasing the value of quantitative reasoning and systems ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In 2023, fourth-grade boys ...

‘President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages’: RFK Jr claims basic math rules don’t apply to White House - Carney says he's seen US.-Iran framework to end war, calls it a 'game ...

Isaac Rose-Berman doesn’t think that gambling is evil. After deciding not to pursue a doctorate in political science, Rose-Berman became a professional gambler for a time. But these days, in his 20s, ...

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UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...