LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

The VA's National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report, which analyzes data through 2023, reports that the overall veteran suicide rate rose to 35.2 per 100,000 veterans in 2023, up from 34.7 the ...

When the latest national achievement scores come out, people want to look at the change since the last time. Are things going ...

For some, doing math in school was the worst punishment they could think of. For others, it was like snapping their fingers.

Since July 2025, we've seen a significant divergence in the available monthly estimates, which suggests something ...

The $12.6 million deficit in the 2024-2025 Montclair Public Schools budget may have gone up nearly $1 million due to grant ...

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending.

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing.

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

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

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...