A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look ...

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

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up ...

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

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, ...

The seemingly random distribution of prime numbers has confounded some of the best mathematical minds for centuries. But the Riemann hypothesis, which relates to the zeros in a mathematical function, ...

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 ...

You’re never too old to learn something new. People are losing their minds over how simple — yet tricky — an elementary school-level math equation posted on X (formerly Twitter) is. Over the weekend, ...

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.

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

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 ...