Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk ...

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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes the argument that teachers, principals, and district leaders must “stay ...

Tottenham have rolled the dice in a bid to stay in the Premier League and parted company with Igor Tudor by mutual consent. Tudor was only appointed on Feb. 14 on a short-term deal, but has exited ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Last year, I was observing a middle school math class. The teacher was reviewing mathematical properties (associative, commutative, distributive). This lesson is dear to my heart. I sat patiently as ...

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 ...

The American workforce expects an unmet need for over a million employees to fill STEM-related jobs by 2030. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

Here’s a contrarian truth that cuts through much of today’s AI hype: When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing ...

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class are multitude. I can tell you the story of how math instruction is failing ...