Burleigh: Are students being equipped with a genuine understanding of math concepts or merely trained to follow steps?

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

A national nonprofit that aims to improve math outcomes for students in pre-K-5 found there are four key elements to ...

Try your hand at these tricky visual puzzles and give your brain a boost!

The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 ...

The last thing you need after completing a lung-bursting 13 or 26 miles is to be greeted by plenty of smoke at the finish. But that’s exactly what the first few Chubb Bermuda Triangle Challenge ...

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 ...

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You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...