Eighth graders can be successful in Algebra 1, new research suggests—they just might need some extra support. The findings come from a study of San Francisco schools, which has had a turbulent history ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

San Francisco is restoring eighth-grade algebra after more than a decade, with the San Francisco Board of Education voting 4-3 Tuesday night to approve the change, reversing a controversial policy ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Amber Barkley is a writer and editor with over 10 years of experience in topics ranging from personal finance to marketing analytics to fiction. She found her niche in personal finance in 2022, when ...

When was the last time you had to put pen to paper and solve an equation like you used to at school? A simple-looking sum was posted to X this week by Break the Silos, that has left self-proclaimed ...

Jamie Dimon’s 2026 letter outlines JPMorganChase’s record growth and strategic priorities regarding AI and global risk. Read the full analysis for more details.

In the era of Facebook and YouTube, brand building has become a vexing challenge. This is not how things were supposed to turn out. A decade ago most companies were heralding the arrival of a new ...