21 articles
Education
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 transge...
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, whic...
China
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 soci...
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...
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 th...
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 Zheng...
Politics
Rand Paul’s wife posts anti-trans tweet claiming ‘Chinese third graders’ are learning ‘calculus’
The wife of Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul has been criticized for posting a Twitter rant that mocked transgender people and claimed...
Rebecca Moon
Father in China begs police to arrest him because his daughter couldn’t solve a math problem
A Chinese father publicly broke down in the middle of a road because his child could not solve a mathematics equation. The breakdown: A resi...
Viral
Japanese Multiplication Trick is the Best First Thing You’ll Learn in 2021
If you’re down to learn something cool and quick this early in the year, a multiplication “trick” attributed to the Japane...
Carl Samson
News
Filipina American Becomes Department Head at NASA Despite Bad Math Grades Growing Up
Women make up only a third of NASA’s workforce, and Filipina American engineer Josephine Santiago-Bond is one of them. Santiago-Bond is the ...
Kimberly Nguyen
Trump Supporters Are Reportedly Ditching Their MAGA Hats for Andrew Yang
In 2016, the “Make America Great Again” slogan and the merchandise that bore it became a cultural phenomenon. Now, some former T...
Culture
Japanese Mathmetician Creates the Most Mind-Blowing Optical Illusion
Strange “optical toys” that appear to change form right before the viewers’ eyes have mesmerized many netizens in Japan. Designed by Japane...
Entertainment
‘Philippine Big Brother’ Contestant Giving THE NERDIEST Response to a Question is TV Gold
A new contestant on Filipino reality show “Pinoy Big Brother” is going viral for his complicated response to an otherwise simple...
Asia
Jeff Bezos Uses ‘Singaporean Math’ To Make His Kids Smarter
When it comes to his children’s education, Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has spared no expense. “We tried all sorts of thi...
Heather Johnson Yu
Teen Math Whiz to Receive a Master’s Degree Before Even Finishing High School
A 17-year-old high school senior will be receiving her Master’s degree even before she gets her high school diploma a month from now. ...
Australia’s Best Math Teacher is a Super Fly Asian Man
An Asian-Australian math teacher’s unique teaching style has turned him into Australia’s favorite high school teacher. Co-head mathematics ...
Ruthless Father Dangles Son Over River For Not Doing His Math Homework
A father from China definitely went over the top with his strategy for how to effectively tutor a child. The merciless father from Meishan i...
King Malleta
Hong Kong’s Teenage Math Prodigy Becomes UCLA Professor
March Tian Boedihardjo is an 18-year-old, Hong Kong-born, Indonesian-Chinese genius who recently finished his doctorate program to become an...
This Chinese Migrant Worker Just Became the ‘Good Will Hunting’ of China
A Chinese mailman, who had no previous math training, has discovered a simplified process to solve complex mathematical problems, reminiscen...
The U.S. Wins International Math Olympiad For the Second Year in a Row
The world’s brightest high school minds in Mathematics recently competed in Hong Kong with Americans again successfully demolishing its ster...
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This 17-Year-Old is One of 12 in the World to Completely Ace the AP Calculus Exam
For many people, the strenuous three-hour-long Advanced Placement Calculus exam is something to be suppressed from their memories, but for s...
Laura Dang