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$4 million NSF grant will fund project to improve K-12 mathematics education in partnership with Black disabled students

A more than $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Racial Equity In STEM Education program will support a project to develop new professional learning resources for K-12 math teachers ...
VentureBeat

New open-source math model Light-R1-32B surpasses equivalent DeepSeek performance with only $1000 in training costs

Researchers have introduced Light-R1-32B, a new open-source AI model optimized to solve advanced math problems. It is now available on Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — free for ...

Leading AI models struggle to solve original math problems

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 ...
Yahoo Finance

Modern Classrooms Project Secures $6.9 Million Grant from Skeebo Foundation to Optimize and Scale Curriculum-Aligned Math Learning Solution

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern Classrooms Project, a nonprofit scaling an innovative method of teaching, announced today that it has received a $6.9 million grant from the Skeebo ...
TechRepublic

OpenAI Model Wins Gold at International Mathematical Olympiad – or Did It?

OpenAI Model Wins Gold at International Mathematical Olympiad – or Did It? Your email has been sent A Google DeepMind researcher and OpenAI’s former CTO are posing questions about the validity of ...