An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

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

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

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI that “evolves” code solutions, rediscovered and improved proofs for the finite-field Kakeya conjecture. Gemini Deep Think verified the logic, and AlphaProof formalized the ...

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 the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Imagine knowing that the stock market will likely crash in three years, that extreme weather will destroy your home in eight or that you will have a debilitating disease in 15—but that you can take ...