Mathematics is often seen as the most reliable system humans have ever created. Yet buried deep within its foundations lies a ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

A troubling math problem that led to a "heated conversation" among one fifth-grader's family has sparked similar debate on social media. Math differs from other subjects in that the answers students ...

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An 11-year-old Ridgeview student’s idea became a math club that placed in the top 10% nationally in its first year of ...

A few years ago, I was talking to a physicist friend of mine, and he had a theory. That theory was that humans fundamentally had trouble understanding the impact of exponential functions, and that ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

He solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics — a million-dollar challenge that had defeated everyone for decades.