The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes the argument that teachers, principals, and district leaders must “stay ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

Today Merle received this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his achievements. The prize comes with a $3-million ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

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, ...

For many, it's been years since they've sat in a classroom while a teacher tested their arithmetic skills. Internet users are now racking their brains to remember how to solve elementary school ...

Chad Aldeman’s March 16 op-ed, “When high school grads can’t do math,” focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore. There is no discussion of inputs, namely the resources needed to ...

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...