How many digits of Pi do you know? Many people stop after a few. A former chief engineer at NASA revealed that advanced calculations used for space exploration use 16. 9-year-old Nova Horton from ...

With an awards season and year-end lists that tend to favor films that have been released in the last few months, many things can go overlooked. For our yearly feature highlighting the 50 best titles ...

So much of the news is about what is happening in the moment. But after a major event, people pick up the pieces, and life goes on. In this new series, The Straits Times talks to the everyday heroes ...

One day last fall, Kristine Barrios’ 9-year-old daughter got stuck on a lesson in IXL, the personalized learning software that served as her math teacher. She had to multiply three three-digit numbers ...

SINGAPORE: By now, it is clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is not going anywhere. In fact, judging from Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s recent National Day Rally speech, it will only become more ...

Want to be great at math and impress everyone with your quick thinking? You've found the perfect place! Forget boring memorization and long calculations; get ready for a fun journey where math becomes ...

SINGAPORE – The number of dengue cases for January to May 2025 has dropped about 74 per cent from the same period in 2024, with almost 2,000 cases recorded for the year to date, according to figures ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new study published in Nature by a team of researchers including Nobel laureates ...

What does BODMAS stand for? The BODMAS acronym stands for: brackets, orders, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction. It is sometimes known as BIDMAS (with ‘Indices’ instead of ‘Orders’) or ...

In any state standards, it’s almost ubiquitous these days to include the preparation of students for a global society. Unfortunately, courses on global education aren’t offered in traditional ...