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.

For some, doing math in school was the worst punishment they could think of. For others, it was like snapping their fingers. This post is dedicated to the latter, the mathematicians who like to spend ...

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.

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.

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in 8, ...

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...

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 ...

Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz of Brown University tackled the problem in a recent study by working backward from an existing polyhedral torus to answer questions about what would be needed to ...