It's said that statistics don't lie, but they often don't tell the whole truth, either. A Cornell statistics expert has come up with a method he believes can boost statistical power and significantly ...

Governments that value effective policymaking should be alert to the perils of falling survey-response rates, inadequate ...

The National Association of Scholars has pushed its model standards in social studies, science and English language arts. Now it’s set its sights on math.

These puzzles showcase the base rate fallacy; the second one is also an example of the false positive paradox. When people ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight The proposed ...

In less than a year, eight prominent mathematicians have moved to work in Asia, most of them from the United States.

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at ...

A tentative new elementary school schedule would increase English instruction by roughly 15 minutes a day, and math by 20 ...

Despite significant mathematical refinements, econometrics has shown the weaknesses of its logical underpinnings, primarily ...