Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Chad Aldeman’s March 16 op-ed, “When high school grads can’t do math,” focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore. There is no discussion of inputs, namely the resources needed to ...

I used to think that war was just about fighting, and whoever was physically stronger or had a bigger army would overpower the other side. Blame it on all those movies where everything comes down to a ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Four days into war with Iran, at least one of the United States’ Gulf allies is already running low on crucial interceptor munitions used to defend against Iranian missile and drone attacks, two ...

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While taking Interstate 15 to work recently I saw a speeding driver without a license plate narrowly avoid sideswiping another vehicle. Sights like this have become “normal” since I moved to Nevada, ...

SYDNEY--Australia's inflation remained elevated in January, stoking speculation that interest rates will need to be raised much further. Consumer prices rose 3.8% in January from a year earlier, ...

The President’s proposal to cap credit card rates at a maximum of 10% over the next year has gotten a lot of attention in the midst of a national affordability crisis. It’s understandable. Rates are ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...