Mathematician Eugenia Cheng wants us to rethink our relationship to math -- and equality. We hear how different paths lead to identical outcomes in math, and how that can help us all in real life.

Schooling plays a surprisingly large role in short-changing the nation's most economically disadvantaged students of critical math skills, according to a a new study. Findings from the study indicate ...

Sisi Mitchell pores over tables of data showing the number of homicides, assaults, arrests and community engagements with police in Minneapolis. Her task is to find which precincts have the most ...

It's widely recognized that, in the US at least, there's a gender gap in performance on tests of basic skills: boys tend to perform better at math, while girls get superior reading scores. It has been ...

Thousands of fast food workers took to the streets this week, staging strikes in protest over their low pay. In states where the minimum wage has not been raised above the federal level, if a worker ...

The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

In the paper, the authors present several inequalities for bounding the sums of two sine cardinal functions and the sums of two hyperbolic sine cardinal functions. These inequalities improve ...