The Belmont-Redwood Shores School District (BRSSD) piloted new math curricula at Ralston Middle School starting Jan. 26, part of a districtwide effort to align instruction with California’s updated ...

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending.

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Mathematics has always been one of the most challenging subjects for students of all ages. From simple arithmetic to complex ...

But, both of these would require large structural changes for a course that teaches hundreds of students a year — something that can’t really happen in the near term. What could happen now, though, is ...

These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Mathematics be a tricky subject, and many students struggle to get the hang of it, finding it difficult to solve problems and equations in class. It requires a special sort of attention that one can’t ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person). Still, I like to think I have a solid grip on basic math: I can usually gauge whether a ...