The gender gap in education doesn't always disadvantage women. In countries like Estonia, Iceland, or Sweden, women outperform men in key indicators such as tertiary education and lifelong learning.

In honor of the journal’s 50th anniversary, editors curated a list of influential papers from each year of its history. For ...

Operations research analysts are involved in top-level strategizing, planning, and forecasting. They use advanced techniques from mathematics, science, and engineering to make better decisions and to ...

How’s this for a prickly real-world math problem: In the United States, only about one-third of eighth graders are proficient in mathematics. Just half of high school graduates taking the ACT are ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...