The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

We are moving from a world of institutional dependency to one of personal responsibility. The question is no longer, “What can we do for people?” but, “How can we equip people to do more for ...

There may be some value in "sleeping on it"—or, at least, in taking a deep power nap for 20 minutes—when it comes to problem solving, as it may lead you to a "eureka" moment. This is the conclusion of ...

What if the secrets to the universe’s most perplexing mathematical riddles were no longer locked away, but instead cracked open by an artificial mind? In a new development, OpenAI’s o3-mini model has ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

When the greatest mathematician alive unveils a vision for the next century of research, the math world takes note. That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians ...

Complex organizational problems and chaos are silent killers of productivity and innovation. In today’s fractured work environment, they are more prevalent than ever. Political transitions, ...

When it comes to basic skills such as creating a complex travel itinerary, reading a thermometer or finding information from a website, American workers are falling behind those in other rich ...

Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft respond to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...

Problem-solving is an essential life skill that involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving challenges effectively. Have you ever found yourself staring at a problem, feeling like you’re trying to ...