These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

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

Talk nerdy to me: Teachers who use math vocabulary help students do better in math

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Students, parents ...
Scientific American

The 10 Biggest Math Breakthroughs of 2025

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...
EdSource

San Diego math decline reveals need for statewide strategy

EdSource · From housing to basketball, Fresno schools invest in the whole child A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news ...
Wall Street Journal

The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
Bloomberg L.P.

For Too Many American Kids, Math Isn’t Adding Up

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...
Newsweek

Students at California University Without 8th Grade Math Skills Skyrockets

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...
CNBC

Congress passes bill to fix IRS 'math error' notices. What it means for taxpayers

The Senate this week passed a bill to fix IRS math error notices for filers who make simple mistakes on their tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service Math and ...
Variety

Daniel Day-Lewis Says Method Acting Criticism Is From ‘People Who Have Little or No Understanding of What It Actually Involves’: ‘It’s Almost as if’ We’re in a ...

Daniel Day-Lewis rejected misconceptions about Method acting during a wide-ranging conversation at the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday, saying that criticism surrounding it comes from those who ...
Variety

Daniel Day-Lewis Says Method Acting Has Become an ‘Easy Target’ and Implies That an Actor Is ‘Behaving Like a Lunatic’: ‘Everyone Tends to Focus on the Less Important ...

Back from retirement, Daniel Day-Lewis is getting candid about acting. In a recent sit-down with “The New York Times,” the three-time Oscar winner said he “doesn’t like thinking of acting in terms of ...