A campus report cites many factors, including the impact of COVID and higher admissions from under-resourced schools.

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

Ultra-endurance athletes can push their bodies to extraordinary extremes, but even they run into a hard biological wall.

Key Points ・UC San Diego’s own faculty report shows a thirtyfold jump since 2020 in freshmen arriving with math skills below the middle-school level, raising concerns about admissions practices and ...

Shocking UC San Diego study reveals one in eight college freshmen lack basic math skills, with remedial course enrollment ...

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

Sacramento students are underperforming in English language arts and mathematics assessments compared to their peers across the state, according to new data released by the California Department of ...

Both the state and its largest school district celebrated improvements in students’ reading scores, with lesser progress seen in math scores. “We’re not surprised by the results; we’re very proud of ...

When confronted with low literacy rates, no one has ever given the excuse that some people just aren’t cut out to read. And yet we hear that excuse — “I’m just not a math person” — over and over when ...