In 2023-24 at Samish Elementary, only 21% of students were consistently showing grade-level knowledge. The next year, that number jumped to 44%. School officials credit targeted efforts by teachers ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

A winter bird count links tradition, science and climate data — with one cold day ending in a rare snowy owl sighting.

Abstract: Localizing individuals in crowds is more in accordance with the practical demands of subsequent high-level crowd analysis tasks than simply counting. However, existing localization based ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Some people think 2+2=5... and they might be right. A statistician explains how abstract math can have real-world limitations ...

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Allysia Finley is right to highlight the shrinking ranks of qualified teachers (“The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math,” Life Science, Dec. 1). My husband—who holds engineering degrees ...

AP counts the vote in U.S. national, state and local elections, ensuring the world knows who has won on Election Day. Instead of relying on crowd sourcing or technology short cuts, AP starts the work ...

For more than 175 years, The Associated Press has gathered, verified and published election results in thousands of races across the United States. AP’s commitment to delivering precise and ...