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In the world of the long-running kids show Cyberchase, Motherboard, a sort of digital queen and literal technocrat, is the beneficent but impaired leader of all of cyberspace. She is—we are to ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

It’s late afternoon in Menlo Park. Mark Zuckerberg’s senior infrastructure team is camped out in one of Meta’s glass-walled conference rooms. The slide deck peers back from the screen. Zuck, as ...

Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an admissions requirement five years ago? Now arrives the dispiriting result: Many freshmen at one of its ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

Damian Costa found the magic almost immediately. The entertainment industry veteran worked at Caesars Entertainment with some of the best magicians in the business, and after moving on and founding ...

Magician Joe Romano delivered a fascinating show on Oct. 8 to students at Freeland Elementary/Middle School students in fourth through sixth grades, along with their parents. Magician Joe Romano ...

A classic riddle about a hotel bill uses misleading math to create a paradox. This type of intentional misdirection is a common technique used in magic tricks. Here’s a riddle my father told me when I ...