Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Putnam — For the past three years, improvement in math among Putnam Elementary School’s most disadvantaged students has ranked ...

4,329 students. 487 institutions. 12 problems. 6 hours. A median score of 0 to 2 points out of 120. Those are the numbers behind the most prestigious undergraduate mathematics exam in North ...

UC Santa Barbara earned its highest-ever finish in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, placing fifth among 477 universities across North America. College of Creative Studies (CCS) ...

ST. JOHN'S — Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William ...

Just 41% of Connecticut adults are considered proficient in math, according to estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics. Here's what one town is doing about it.