A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School f ...

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A San Francisco math teacher was placed on indefinite leave Monday after being accused of using sexist and “fat-shaming” questions ...

Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video games. This team identified a key geometry idea ...

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and ...