Let me start with some statistics. From the U.S. class of 2023, made up of 3.7 to 4 million seniors, about 1.9 million students took the SAT—but somewhere between 40% and 50% of those seniors didn’t ...

A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

If you’re asking, “How many questions are on the SAT?” you’re not alone. Understanding the test structure is one of the first steps in preparing effectively. While the shift to the digital SAT hasn’t ...

Indiana juniors who took the state-required SAT exam improved their reading and writing scores, while posting a slight improvement in math. The 2024-25 scores on the SAT taken by 81,620 juniors showed ...

When Redditor u/Awecalibur reviewed his niece’s math homework, he wasn’t expecting to spark a family debate, let alone an internet one. But the fifth-grade math problem in question was anything but ...

It doesn't matter how gifted you are at math, this children's homework question is bound to leave you baffled, just like the millions of puzzled internet users who can't comprehend it. In a now viral ...

Some students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some, ...

With five years of experience as a writer and editor in the higher education and career development space, Ilana has a passion for creating accessible, relevant content that demystifies the higher-ed ...

If you're like most people, once you were finished with taking the SATs, you never wanted to think about them again. There's even a good chance you've had a nightmare or two in which you show up ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. In June 1978, the ...