Here to stay are the days when computers are used daily in schools to enhance students’ learning skills and prepare them for life in a high-tech world. And, as computers take over just about every ...

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 ...

After its Back to Basics reading overhaul, New York is turning to math — but educators and researchers can't agree on ...

The Nation’s Report Card released Wednesday revealed that a larger percentage of 9-year-old students were performing at or above “Level 200” for both reading math than students that were the same age ...

What happens in the mind of a high achiever when they encounter a difficult problem? In fact, they are on the exact same "journey of exploration" that Newton once took when he discovered the "laws of ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

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 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

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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 ...