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. T...

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 He...

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 mathema...

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...

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: ...

Pakistani British teen with IQ higher than Einstein’s calls for more support for gifted students

Mahnoor Cheema, a 17-year-old student in Britain with an IQ of 161, is advocating for better support for gifted students in state schools.  ...

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 exp...

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 bla...

Student with 2 published books, 4.2 GPA and 1560 SAT score rejected by Harvard, MIT, Yale and Princeton

A high school student with two successful books, a 4.2 GPA, an SAT score of 1560 out of 1600 and a slew of other accolades was purportedly r...

SF parents sue local school district to put Algebra I back in middle school

San Francisco parents are suing the city’s public school district for not offering Algebra I to middle school students and for requiri...

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, ...

TikToker’s ‘discovery’ of Kumon in Europe brings back former students’ ‘traumatic’ memories

A London-based TikTok user from Canada triggered haunting flashbacks of childhood stress among many Asians after posting about her “discover...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Physical gestures could improve math understanding, researchers say

Researchers from China, Iran and Australia are suggesting a gesture-based technique to boost understanding of basic math concepts among pri...

Chinese math genius takes 1 night to solve problem that puzzled group of mathematicians for 4 months

Wei Dongyi, a 30-year-old assistant mathematics professor at Peking University in Beijing, made headlines for solving a complex problem in ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

9-Year-Old Japanese Boy is the Youngest to Pass a University-Level Math Test

A 9-year-old boy has become the youngest person to pass a university-level mathematics test in Japan. Shogo Ando, a fourth-grade student in ...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...