Math

Simon Pegg released a foul-mouthed rant chastising Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s plan to extend the study of mathematics until the age of 18.

A Florida Christian school teacher who allegedly sexted with her 18-year-old pupil and schemed to hustle him “into her home while her husband was at work” was arrested, WCTV reported. 

Another open letter from California academics warns against the proposed K-12 math framework that prioritizes woke social justice ideology.

An investigation into studies cited in the California Math Framework draft that claims math is “racist” found results were often misrepresented.

The Virginia Department of Education may cut advanced math classes for some students in a move critics claim is a push for “equity.”

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) announced Tuesday the U.S. math and reading assessments known as the “Nation’s Report Card” will be postponed until 2022 due largely to the reliance on remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Mathematical Association of America recently released a statement in which it pushed back against President Donald Trump’s recent executive to curtail the teaching of critical race theory. The association argued that mathematics contains “human biases” that can only be corrected by promoting critical race theory and other radical doctrines developed on college campuses over the past two decades to math educators and students.

On Sunday, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health promoted research on Twitter by one doctoral student that claims that two plus two can equal five. The research was quickly mocked by Twitter users, many of whom questioned the value of a Harvard education.

Brooklyn College Professor Laurie Rubel argued this week on Twitter that the mathematical equation 2+2=4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” Rubel’s tweet was retweeted and promoted by several academics at universities and colleges around the nation.

What happened on MSNBC Thursday night was an insightful illustration of how unthinking and dogmatic the media are, the tunnel vision of demagogues.

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang announced on Tuesday he is shutting down his presidential campaign after dismal results in the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary, but he also is signaling that his future may include another run for the White House.

Seattle schools are putting into place a K-12 curriculum to teach about how Western culture has “appropriated” math and used it to oppress minorities.

The Seattle public schools are using math (of all things) as just one more gateway drug into the destructive addiction of victimization.

Leftist educators around the nation are campaigning to eradicate “racism” and “whiteness” from math curricula.

The largest city in the Philippines will implement an Israeli education model in one of its public high schools, it was announced this week.

Most public school teachers say mass immigration has a “mixed” or a “negative” impact on American schoolkids.

A group of parents and students has filed what it hopes will be a landmark lawsuit against the State of California for its public schools failing to teach literacy.

Mass immigration to the United States has had a depressing impact on reading and math proficiency skills among immigrant students, a new study finds.

A college math professor went high-tech when he decided to play an April Fool’s Day prank on his students.

Two psychologists in Finland have concluded that religious believers are bad at math and physics, have poor mechanical abilities and don’t have a good sense of the physical and biological world.

A New York professor has sparked a debate among educators over whether or not algebra is too hard and should be dropped from the curriculum.