Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could ...

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

Answer: 42.5 (Subtract 36 from 49, divide the answer by two. Add that number to 36 to get the answer). Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. What number do you get if you multiply all the numbers on a ...

A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

A new method trains artificial intelligence systems to more reliably solve complex problems that require interpreting both text and images. In tests, AI models trained with this method outperformed ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

Do you stare at a math word problem and feel completely stuck? You're not alone. These problems mix reading comprehension ...

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has enhanced the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various reasoning tasks.

Some math problems are designed in ways that reward simplicity rather than analytical depth. Research shows that highly intelligent individuals are more likely to overthink these problems, leading to ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...