A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

New research finds girls and women more often use step-by-step algorithms, while boys and men use shortcuts. Accuracy is similar short-term, but algorithm use links to weaker performance on complex ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

For two decades, you had virtually no chance of winning your division. The AFC East was the domain of the Patriots, best of the foursome an astounding 17 of 19 years between 2001 and ’19. Then, ...

Google's Nano Banana Pro accurately solved a handwritten math problem in the user's handwriting style Nano Banana Pro is part of Google's Gemini 3 series for advanced AI image generation Social media ...

A seemingly easy math puzzle making the rounds on the internet has left people scratching their heads as it requires some clever thinking. The brainteaser, that was shared on X this week by user ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

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 ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by ...

In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former Trump adviser Elon Musk solved an "unsolvable" math problem after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb.