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· Carl Samson
UC faculty push to restore SAT, ACT requirements amid math crisis
More than 1,500 University of California faculty members have signed open letters calling on the UC system to restore standardized testing requirements for undergraduate admissions, citing a steep decline in incoming student math readiness. Faculty sound the alarm The push began…
· Bryan Ke
New study investigates math teachers’ racial, gender biases
A new study has looked into the racial and gender biases of math teachers across the U.S. when reviewing their students’ test performance. The study, published in Contemporary Educational Psychology, found that teachers tend to attribute girls’ and Black and Hispanic students’…
· Carl Samson
Vietnamese American professor solves decades-old math problems
Rutgers University professor Pham Huu Tiep solved two separate, fundamental math problems that have baffled experts for decades: Brauer’s Height Zero Conjecture from 1955 and a complex issue within the Deligne-Lusztig theory, dating back to 1976. His breakthroughs, achieved in…
· Ryan General
‘World’s greatest living mathematician’ shares his thoughts on AI
Terence Tao, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor often dubbed the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” took to microblogging site Mastodon last month to share his insights on the capabilities of OpenAI’s new GPT-o1 reasoning model, suggesting that while…
· Ryan General
Resurfaced video shows creator of world’s 1st AI software engineer was math prodigy
A video of Scott Wu, the founder and CEO of Cognition Labs and creator of the AI software engineer Devin, showcasing his exceptional mathematical skills at the 2010 Mathcounts competition has taken social media by storm. The clip, which resurfaced following the launch of Devin…
· Bryan Ke
Asian American teens lead US to international math olympiad victory
China narrowly lost to the U.S. at the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) held in Bath, United Kingdom, on Monday. The U.S. team, composed of high school students from Connecticut, Illinois, Florida, New Jersey and California, finished the competition with a score of…
· Bryan Ke
Watch: 12-year-old Chinese girl teaches college-level math online
A 12-year-old girl has gone viral on Chinese social media for her remarkable grasp of college-level math. Key points:
· Michelle De Pacina
SF supervisors criticized for taking taxpayer-funded trip to Japan to learn about math
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Myrna Melgar are missing board meetings while on a taxpayer-funded trip to Japan to explore math educational methods at Tokyo Gakugei University. Concerns about the trip: The trip has raised questions as the supervisors have…
· Iris Jung
Popular S. Korean math lecturer blames Instagram for the country’s low birth rate
South Korean math lecturer and YouTuber Chung Seung-je blames Instagram for South Korea’s low birth rate in a viral video. “Insta is to blame”: In a video uploaded on Saturday to his YouTube channel, Chung, a well-known tutor at one of the country’s prolific private tutoring…
· Isa Peralta
A math prodigy chases rap superstardom in trailer for Disney+ musical comedy ‘World’s Best’
Walt Disney Studios unveiled the official trailer for its upcoming musical comedy film, “World’s Best,” on Wednesday. The new film follows Prem Patel, a 12-year-old math genius who finds out that his late father was once a famous rapper. Inspired by this discovery, Prem decides…
· Ryan General
Students who see their math teachers as fair do better at math, new study suggests
Students who believe their math teachers who treat them with fairness perform better with the subject, a new study suggests. In the study, researchers from Portland State University, Loyola University Chicago and the University of North Texas sought to determine whether teachers…
· Ryan General
Vanderbilt professor says math education is too ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal’
A Tennessee university professor recently made the case that undergraduate mathematics education is discriminatory against queer and transgender students of color. Luis Leyva, assistant professor of mathematics education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, described it as a…
· Iris Jung
Videos show aftermath of Hawaiian Airlines flight turbulence that injured 36
En route from Phoenix to Honolulu, a Hawaiian Airlines flight encountered extreme turbulence that injured 36 passengers. The event occurred at 10:35 a.m. on Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35, an Airbus 330, about 15 to 30 minutes before landing. Ten crew members and 278 passengers…
· Ryan General
Asian kindergarten students more likely to display advanced math, science skills, new study finds
A new study found that racial discrepancies in advanced math and science skills are exhibited as early as kindergarten. The research, which came from an analysis of a national sample of around 11,000 U.S. elementary school students, found that 16% of Asian students displayed…
· Carl Samson
12-year-old math and music prodigy in Singapore is already taking up 2 college degrees
Nathanael Koh, 12, of Singapore, has caught national attention for pursuing two bachelor’s degrees in separate institutions simultaneously. The academic prodigy, who started primary school at age 3, is now a first-year math student at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury and a…
· Bryan Ke
Chinese boy goes viral for crying in frustration while teaching his stubborn sister math
A video of a 9-year-old boy crying in frustration as his 9-year-old sister refuses to let him teach her math has gone viral on Chinese social media. According to Chinese news outlets, the viral moment occurred on Oct. 11 in the siblings’ home in Anshan, China. Their mother,…
· Khier Casino
Math professor convicted of failing to report Chinese bank account gets probation
A math professor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale was sentenced on Monday to a year of probation after he was found guilty of tax return errors and failing to disclose a Chinese bank account. District Judge Staci Yandle was asked by prosecutors to impose a one-year…
· Bryan Ke
Chinese man, 80, sues his adult son for $15,000 for mocking him after he failed a math quiz
An 80-year-old Chinese father sued his adult son, Luo Jun, for 100,000 yuan (approximately $14,840) after the latter mocked him for failing a math quiz during a family gathering in China’s Jiangxi province in May. The incident reportedly started when the father, identified by…
· Michelle De Pacina
Twitter post about restaurant’s mathematical pizza miscalculation goes mega-viral
Twitter user @cretiredroy told the internet to take math seriously in his tweet on Wednesday about how two 5-inch pizzas are not greater than or equal to a 9-inch pizza order. After seeing his viral tweet – which has over 195,000 likes and 39,000 retweets so far – some users…
· Michelle De Pacina
Chinese father breaks down after son he tutored daily for a year scores a 6/100 on math exam
A Chinese father went viral for bursting into tears after his son scored six out of 100 points on a math exam. The man, who lives in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, reportedly tutored his child until midnight every day for the past year. In a video posted to Weibo by Qilu Evening…
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