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

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Mexico's cartels are the country's fifth-largest employer. A mathematician proved it, as well as its affect on overall safety ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

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, ...

A Polish mathematician who once described artificial intelligence as “a very advanced calculator” has been left stunned after an AI model managed to solve a research-level mathematics problem he spent ...

Polish mathematician Bartosz Naskrecki, from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, is amazed as an AI program successfully solves a maths problem he has been working on for nearly 20 years in advanced ...

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 ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...