Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into blockbuster movies and Reddit threads. Now a group of theoretical physicists say ...

Math. It’s been known to make palms sweat and hearts race. Plenty of Kern County residents — students and parents especially — know how it feels to need a little extra help with the day’s math ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Amid a numeracy crisis, students easily bored by math want less online lesson time, new research suggests. More than half of students who felt the most disengaged by mathematics, those who most often ...