Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry—but it's also an amazing math ...

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

Abstract Algebra” lecture, I tend to buffer them with filler words: “like,” “wait,” “sorry.” While my friend and I raise our ...

As we look ahead and begin to redefine math education, one thing is abundantly clear: AI won’t fix bad pedagogy.

Mathematical understanding should be a goal for every student and something they feel capable of achieving. But translating ...

Middle school teachers are now forced to assume multiplicative thinking is secure so they can dive into ratios and algebra.

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Irene Fonseca has been elected a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society ...

AI stuns researchers by solving a 20-year-old mathematical challenge with near-human reasoning, marking a breakthrough in artificial intelligence and raising new questions about the future of human ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...