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Utah tried to infuse data science into its math standards. That effort got caught up in a broader debate about rigor and what math high schoolers need.

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

These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in upper elementary grades, they should be able to produce the answer to 6x3 ...

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National Mathematics Day honors Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught genius born in 1887. His groundbreaking work on series and partitions, despite lacking formal proofs, captivated mathematicians like ...

ABSTRACT: This paper revisits the nature of school mathematics by examining its philosophical foundations and the implications of these views for contemporary pedagogy. The paper examines how ...

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THE question of right- or left-handedness is always with us in mathematical physics. In this connexion the symbol V is used in one sense by Maxwell, in the other sense by some of his followers, and ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.