Frustrated by AI industry claims of proving math results without transparency, a team of leading academics has proposed a better way ...

But, both of these would require large structural changes for a course that teaches hundreds of students a year — something that can’t really happen in the near term. What could happen now, though, is ...

A 17-year-old Limpopo learner stunned Mzansi after flying to Taiwan to represent South Africa with a groundbreaking ...

Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous ...

Declining math skills are a real problem nationally, but UC San Diego is an unusual case—and other California colleges offer a range of promising models for rethinking calculus requirements.

It's never too early for math sequence riddles. Veritasium's Derek Muller offered a selection of strangers a simple… I played my first round of Plain Vanilla's ...

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 ...

The seventh graders in Maddie Hines’ project-based math class in North Portland are learning all about how to run sophisticated experiments where they come up with a hypothesis, test it out using the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Allysia Finley is right to highlight the shrinking ranks of qualified teachers (“The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math,” Life Science, Dec. 1). My husband—who holds engineering degrees ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...