How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

California could begin testing students as early as kindergarten in math. Proponents of Senate Bill 1067, including state Sen ...

California could begin testing students as early as kindergarten in math if a bill currently going through the state ...

I am sure that I’ll get this reaction in the comments (and from less friendly bloggers), but this theme is a bit of a potluck ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In 2023, fourth-grade boys ...

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core principles didn’t come easily. How do mathematicians decide that something ...

TORONTO — Ontario high school students will soon need to pass a financial literacy test in order to graduate. Education Minister Paul Calandra says students need practical, real-world skills, ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

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 ...

Earlier today I set you these three problems about the number 11. Here they are again with solutions. 1. Funny formation You are the coach of a football team, whose players have shirt numbers 1 to 11.