Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

If the sides of the right-angled triangle are labelled 𝑎, 𝑏 and 𝑐 then Pythagoras' theorem can be written as the formula 𝑎² + 𝑏² = 𝑐². Pythagoras' theorem can be used to find the length of line ...

If you are a math teacher in 2025, you have likely had The Conversation in the faculty lounge. It usually goes something like this:"I assigned a worksheet on qu ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Intelligence is sometimes perceived as a superpower, something that gives a person an edge over their fellow human. So much ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of physics and engineering. To make sense of a weight like 3.5e-14 ounces, I ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules. By Maxine Joselow Future games will need to be held at ...

The prefrontal cortex is a cortical area located in the anterior frontal lobe, including several subdivisions (e.g. ventromedial, dorsolateral, orbitofrontal cortices). The prefrontal cortex functions ...