IntroductionHello. I am a former public high school math teacher (8 years) and am now a development engineer (in my 2nd year).When involved with high school mathematics, have you ever encountered ...

One evening, when your fourth-grade child hands you a math review test, they say, "My friends are already going to cram ...

Count everything. Counting stairs, flowers and toys can be a smart way to incorporate math into your child’s daily life. Break out the games. Play Go Fish or lock in to Candy Land or Chutes and ...

As newly released scores on the global PISA exam show U.S. students trailing other advanced nations in mathematics, federal and state policymakers must act urgently to invest in math education and ...

After an OpenAI model presented a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians are speculating about which ...

Students are better able to engage with and solve complex problems when they view themselves as capable mathematicians.

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On a recent Sunday night, an employee at Anthropic was out for a jog in San Francisco, opened the Claude app on his phone and instructed the outrageously powerful AI model in his pocket to solve the ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI made an announcement that shook the mathematical world. An internal AI model — one not available to the public — had come up with a counterexample to the “unit distance” ...

Researchers showed each giraffe the contents of several containers, which held varying numbers of carrots, then added extra pieces to one of them. Afterward, the animal would choose a container to get ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A conversation with author Anne Morriss on why the slow and steady approach can leave issues unresolved. When it comes to solving complex, layered problems, the default for many organizational leaders ...