A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for students in pre-K-5 found there are four key elements to ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

The official story claims the Old Kingdom built the greatest monuments on Earth in an unbelievably short time, then somehow lost that ability for the next 3000 years. When you break down the ...

The Pyramids of Giza are often admired for their scale, but their precision is harder to explain. Measurements reveal mathematical relationships that appear deliberate rather than accidental. These ...

Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of his time. To draw the Vitruvian Man in 1490 – an illustration of the ...

Rectangular prisms are polygons with an two identical rectangle end sections and four identical rectangular faces along the length. When the faces of the prism are all at right-angles to each other, ...

The pyramids of Egypt are history’s ultimate “wait, that can’t be real” achievements. These ancient wonders were built thousands of years ago, yet they remain taller, heavier, and way more mysterious ...

Remote sensing at a landscape park in Poland uncovered ancient structures buried beneath. Screengrab from Team of Landscape Parks of the Greater Poland Voivodeship's Facebook post Constructed pyramids ...

“Bille” is the first-ever monostable tetrahedron, or a pyramid-like shape with four triangular faces that has one stable resting position. What this means is that Bille, no matter how you throw it and ...

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A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an ...

A troubling math problem that led to a "heated conversation" among one fifth-grader's family has sparked similar debate on social media. Math differs from other subjects in that the answers students ...