Sometimes words take on sudden new meanings - and an almost instant currency. A case in point: fuzzy math. It's a term that will resonate long ...

Fuzzy math is back. Only this time, we’re drowning in debt. We’re spending what we don’t have. The result is sky-high prices for everything from food and gas to lumber.

Whichever set of fuzzy math assumptions you use, and whether the deficit gets counted as shrinking or expanding, the CBO and the White House both forecast a $6.5 trillion deficit over the next decade.

As the new age of math teaching blossomed, with colorful textbooks and lessons on balancing a checkbook, Williams stuck to the way Mrs. Goldman had done things.

Portland Public Schools is about to go after what could be its largest-ever bond measure, a request that voters increase their property taxes to raise a portion of the $900 million to $1.4 billion ...

Let me begin with some numbers: in this year's first presidential debate, held on Oct. 3 in Boston, Texas Gov. George W. Bush used the phrase "fuzzy math'' four times to disparage the arguments of ...

On the 2007 Trends in International Math and Science Study, he writes, U.S. 8th graders scored 9th among 45 nations tested—up from 28th place in 1995.

CINCINNATI - Professor Michael Magazine is upending the logical world of math with a good dose of March Madness. Magazine teaches a new class called Bracketology at University of Cincinnati, the ...

The Florida Gators have 31 commitments and the No. 1 recruiting class in the country. Yet rules say they can only sign 25. What gives? We know the drill around here. Former SU head coach Paul ...

In an MIT Technology Review article—titled "We must fundamentally rethink "net-zero" plans" and a subhead reading, "Corporate climate plans are too often a mix of fuzzy math, flawed assumptions ...

Think back, for a moment, to 2002, when the Bowl Championship Series brought true bliss. Miami finished the regular season unbeaten. Ohio State finished the regular season unbeaten. Everyone else ...

Counting men as women? Inside the fuzzy math of Title IX compliance Story by From Title IX to abortion, female athletes reflect on the 50-year fight for equality ...