Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Achieving quality in the medical laboratory requires the use of many tools. This workbook explains the basic knowledge necessary to understand a simple but effective statistical process control system ...

Can you confidently explain the basics of the U.S. tax system? If you can’t, you’re not alone. The 2024 National Tax Literacy Poll, conducted by the Tax Foundation, revealed that more than half of ...

Abstract: Statistical learning with programming can be used to improve statistical literacy, teach students, and promote educational innovations in information-driven universities through ...

Operating on other planets pushed NASA to rethink even the most basic technology. To handle extreme terrain, temperature swings, and vacuum conditions, engineers redesigned the wheel from the ground ...

It's 8am in the morning and we're on our way to work - but this time, the Times of Malta newsroom is taking the bus. Over the years, we've covered public transport extensively, including recent ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

Welcome to The Workup, a First Opinion column from Vishal Khetpal. In 1912, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Lawrence Sperry, an aviation pioneer, debuted his invention of the autopilot, as he and ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...

When President Donald Trump announced his nomination of E.J. Antoni to replace Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer, economists on the Left and Right criticized the pick. Reasons ...

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...