Ky. math teacher accused of having 'sexual conversations' with student under 12 during remote learning

During a “non-traditional workday” — when class is held virtually and students and teachers are online — “a 5th grade math ...
Crime Online

Kentucky Math Teacher Busted for Sending Explicit Messages to Child Under 12: Police

A Kentucky teacher has pleaded not guilty to having “sexual conversations” with a Louisville student. According to WDRB, ...
Forbes

UC San Diego Finds One In Eight Freshmen Lack High-School Math Skills

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class ...
Scientific American

This Is the Math at the Heart of Reality

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...
The Courier-Journal

Jefferson Co. judge blocks KY order against charitable gaming machines

A Jefferson Circuit Court judge issued a restraining order Nov. 25 that blocks the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation’s order for charitable gaming organizations to disable machines made by ...
Washington Examiner

Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional map for 2026 election

A federal court blocked Texas from using its redrawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections, ordering the map used for the 2022 and 2024 elections to be used next November. The 2-1 ruling of ...
Bloomberg L.P.

For Too Many American Kids, Math Isn’t Adding Up

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...
The New York Times

Can Math Be Violent? For 3 Scholars, the Answer Was Yes.

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...
JournalofAccountancy

Congress passes bill requiring IRS to clarify math error notices

The U.S. Senate on Monday passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, H.R. 998, which, among other changes, requires the IRS to provide taxpayers ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...
Ars Technica

Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths

Today is the official end-of-support date for Microsoft’s Windows 10. That doesn’t mean these PCs will suddenly stop working, but if you don’t take action, it does mean your PC has received its last ...