This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...

California’s Math Scores Are Abysmal. Is It Time to Screen Kindergartners for Basic Math Skills? Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on ...

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Happy Pi Day! March 14 is the date that otherwise rational people celebrate this irrational number, because 3/14 contains the first three digits of pi. And hey, pi deserves a day. By definition, it’s ...

As an irrational number, pi has no end — but that has not stopped computer engineers from chasing its eternal string of decimal places deeper into the unknown. Recently, technology media company ...

What better way to celebrate one of mathematics' most well-known symbols than with an actual slice of pie? On Pi Day, Saturday, March 14 (3.14, get it?), restaurants across the country are getting ...

March 14, or 3/14, is celebrated worldwide as Pi Day, honoring the mathematical constant π (pi), which represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi, an irrational number with ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in ...

For University of Missouri mathematics professor Stephen Montgomery-Smith, Pi is inescapable. “It’s everywhere. I mean I don’t think there’s anybody who doesn’t use Pi somewhere, if you’re a ...

WASHINGTON — Whether you love math or you're just into some good ol' dessert, this Saturday should be a sweet treat for you. That's because March 14 is Pi Day. It's a pun on the first three ...