Math classrooms shifted over time to the discovery model. Not suddenly, and not without good intentions. There was a ...

The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “gauge theory”, which ...

Students may think they’re just choosing a maths subject, but they are also shaping the university courses and careers most ...

Many students see the equal sign as a signal to calculate, rather than a symbol of equivalence. Here’s how to clear up that ...

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

A bill aimed at revamping Ohio's K-12 math education at a time when many Ohio students are falling behind in the subject may become law after passing the Ohio House on June 9. On June 9, an amended ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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 ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

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 ...

Is mathematics being taken over by generative artificial intelligence? A spate of media reports has suggested that the field is being fundamentally changed by the technology. Many maths researchers ...