Modeling, pre-teaching, and effective use of visuals can help struggle students, speakers at an EdWeek forum said.

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An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by mathematicians working for the tech firm Open AI using a single prompt from an AI chatbot. The company has not revealed all the precise details ...

The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who ...

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...