MCAS has been a failure, and MassCore will be, too, because the state still does not provide the necessary resources to property-poor school districts.

Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time using AI to work on Erdős problems. The work itself is technical, but the lesson it ...

Students actively engage in tasks that are doable and interesting—which frees up time for personalized instruction.

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

New benchmark study results show leading AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, still lag humans in visual math reasoning.

You’re never too old to learn something new. People are losing their minds over how simple — yet tricky — an elementary school-level math equation posted on X (formerly Twitter) is. Over the weekend, ...

Republicans in the Senate are under increasing pressure from Trump to pass the SAVE America Act, but ending the filibuster ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

First Proof is an effort to see whether LLMs can contribute meaningfully to pure mathematics research. The dust has settled on round one, and the results are surprising ...

What if you find yourself in a situation where you’re approaching retirement and it looks like you really won’t have enough to retire when you would hope to, even if you scale down your lifestyle?

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you're there? Based on the New ...

This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...