A new cooking feature highlights the single ingredient that dramatically improves the depth and balance of taco soup. Footage shows how the addition subtly enhances texture while elevating the overall ...

If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

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 ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

MAINE, USA — After years of decline, Maine’s Department of Education is working on revamping its teaching approach by going ‘back to basics.’ Maine DOE announced it would create resources and ...

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President Donald Trump keeps making a mathematically impossible promise. At event after event this month and last, Trump has declared that the “most favored nation” policy he unveiled in an executive ...

As many as 45% of U.S. high school seniors lack basic math skills, while more than 30% lack basic reading skills—the lowest rates in more than three decades—according to test results released by the U ...