Have you ever wondered whether mathletes can go pro? Since 1959, the answer has been “yes” – with the height of achievement ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that giving high school students ...

“Everyone learns many mathematical operations in school: fractions, roots, logarithms, and trigonometric functions […] each ...

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

Meta's new hyperagent framework breaks the AI "maintenance wall," allowing systems to autonomously rewrite their own logic ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

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

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

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...