I know that for some, math can be a scary or intimidating subject, and I think a lot of this has to do with some of the terminology used by mathematicians. As you will see below, some mathematical ...

A prominent researcher claims to have a revolutionary approach to “interpretability,” or the science of why A.I. models do ...

When teaching a new calculation method, after explaining an example problem to the end, we sometimes immediately hand out ...

After presenting a math word problem, some children are left with their pencils stopped. Before teaching them the formula ...

Fields Medalist Terence Tao, in an interview with The Observer, criticized companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic for treating hard math problems ...

Mathematics is often misunderstood as a dry subject of numbers, formulas, and calculations. Many students see it only as a classroom requirement, many adults re ...

A few short years ago, asking AI to add two four-digit numbers together for a third-grade math assignment would have been a ...

That is where a strong mathematical foundation becomes critical. Those who understand numbers and mathematical relationships ...

The First Proof consortium has repeatedly challenged AI systems to crack 10 tough research math problems. In the latest round ...

[This is a guest post by Francesco Maggi. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Large language models (LLMs) and the research systems built ...

A Science paper on Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus reports proofs for 9 Erdős problems and 44 OEIS conjectures. We look at how problems were chosen, how Lean verified the proofs, what humans ...

Teaching kids which group has more and which has less sounds pretty simple. Until you put five jellyfish on one side of a worksheet, eight fish on the other, and a child confidently tells you they’re ...