Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education — and may be just as controversial.

The plot of “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace” seems like that of a typical Simpsons episode. In it, Homer struggles with a ...

The University of the Pacific recently hosted the annual Math Steeplechase. More than 1,000 students participated in the ...

The Center on Reinventing Public Education says educators should look critically at all research, calls for huge new study on ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. DPI proposes Math 3 be optional; final two courses offer flexible choices. Revised Math 1 and 2 will teach essential skills needed ...

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 ...

In a record-length State of the Union address, President Trump threw out a string of eye-catching economic ideas. Among them: new retirement accounts for Americans without access to 401(k)s; replacing ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

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Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...