Commitment and hard work, as it usually does, paid off for this year’s high school graduates. They crossed one of life’s most important and gratifying thresholds as perhaps the most literate class in ...

Americans are lacking in confidence when it comes to math. Restaurants now print the suggested tip on receipts because so many customers struggle to calculate it — an exercise that draws on 4th ...

Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. “I’d be at a party, and I’d tell someone what my book was about, and then I’d be ...