4 King's Field Mechanics that Modern Soulslike Games Should Copy

It's fair to say that the Soulslike genre is healthier than ever. Developers like FromSoftware and Team Ninja have utilized ...
The Citizen

Inman studies 2-D shapes hands-on

Inman Elementary made their study of 2-D shapes immersive and delicious. As part of the 1st grade’s math unit on geometry, students used pretzels and ...
Science Daily

Hidden dimensions could explain where mass comes from

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming ...
IGN

Dust on the Rhombus Mirror

Now that Aunt Han has been safely located, you will be sent back to your room to think about your actions. While the desire to obey Aunt Han might be strong after how much trouble you ended up in ...
Wall Street Journal

The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

A Math Horror Show at UC San Diego

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 ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

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 ...
Bloomberg L.P.

For Too Many American Kids, Math Isn’t Adding Up

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...
Scientific American

This New Shape Breaks an ‘Unbreakable’ 3D Geometry Rule

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...
Quanta Magazine

First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s ...
CNBC

Congress passes bill to fix IRS 'math error' notices. What it means for taxpayers

The Senate this week passed a bill to fix IRS math error notices for filers who make simple mistakes on their tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service Math and ...