Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library The mathematical reasoning performed by LLMs is fundamentally different from the rule-based symbolic methods in traditional formal reasoning.

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 ...

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

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

Long before humans carved numbers into clay tablets or scratched equations onto stone, people in the ancient Near East were already dividing space, counting patterns, and thinking in mathematical ...

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. According to a review analyzing 49 studies with 37,654 participants, reading comprehension has a significantly strong effect on students' ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Do you know your geometry from your arithmetic and your fractions from your logs? Let’s find out! Think of this as a math class without the quizzes, where every problem has a twist solution, every ...

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