Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that ...

A professor of Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, Felix Ilesanmi Alao, has called for renewed efforts to demystify General Mathematics by making it a ...

KIMBERLY M. NIEBAUER teaches gifted students in K–5 at Duval County (Fla.) Public Schools. As a Microsoft certified coach and one of EdTech’s 2024 K–12 IT Influencers, she frequently shares best ...

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, ...

Washington has an urgent math problem. Nearly one in three students cannot demonstrate basic grade-level skills, and among low-income students it’s almost one in two. In a state that prides itself on ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

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 ...

In what can be a lonely field for women even during the best of times, Marisol Hernández’s first year in engineering school coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, when classes were held remotely rather ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same question about AI. When you purchase ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...