The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

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In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber ...

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Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago Faltings’s proof answered a question that had been open since the early ...