For most people, solving a problem is the reward—the relief of being done, the achievement of having figured it out.

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathemat ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

A math teacher at Sierra Pacific High School in Hanford is giving his senior class a very important lesson before they ...

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

New research shows that advances in technology could help make future supercomputers far more energy efficient. Neuromorphic computers are modeled after the structure of the human brain, and researche ...

Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods ...

GPT-5.2 Pro delivers a Lean-verified proof of Erdős Problem 397, marking a shift from pattern-matching AI to autonomous ...

US researchers solve partial differential equations with neuromorphic hardware, taking us closer to world's first ...

Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex ...