It should come as no surprise to anyone that to succeed in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) field, one needs a solid foundation in mathematics. When my sons entered college, even ...

What started as a 50-point class project has become a published tool for changing how students think about mathematics.

With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex ...

Raymond School District has unanimously approved new math curricula for all K–8 grades, selecting Bridges in Mathematics for elementary and Math & YOU for middle school after a months-long, ...

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

Raymond School District has unanimously approved two new math programs for all K–8 grades after a months-long, teacher-led review process. Bridges in Mathematics will serve elementary students, ...

New York City’s attempt to change how schools teach math is facing some early roadblocks—and generating debate that cuts to the core of long-standing scientific and philosophical questions about how ...

On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI world because it contains hundreds of expert-level problems that ...

Students in Years 1 and 2, the equivalent of kindergarten and first grade in the U.S., prepare for a math lesson at St. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand. Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...