Terence Tao thinks mathematics is about to go through the kind of disruption that other professions have been bracing for. In ...

As AI churns out mathematical proofs, a DeepMind study raises a bigger question: What do we lose when we focus only on the ...

OpenAI’s recent claim of solving a Millennium Prize problems causes both celebration and controversy ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...

“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 ...

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, ...

Language and reasoning skills help predict math performance, offering clues to the learning difficulties that a test score ...

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication facts or encourage creative strategies to solve problems? The answer, ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

When elementary students learn some tools for discussing math, they can start to see it as more than just quickly getting to ...