Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

"Regular" high school seniors in Australia faced an astonishing statistics problem in their exams. Math is having a high profile year, from common core to Australia's high school exit exams. The math ...

Everyone agreed on the first step: Solve inside the parentheses, for 2+2=4. But after that, people split down two paths. Some multiplied first, while others divided, leading to different answers—1 and ...

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Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

🃏 AI solves famous math problem. Bigger breakthroughs to come? When you consider that the US productivity growth — the main, long-term driver of rising living standards — has been in a 50-year funk, ...

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Is Oglethorpe University's Bill Shillito right? What does this math problem mean? You love numbers. So do we. Let's nerd out over numbers together. The shared problem follows a now-common formula with ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers have had to rethink pretty much everything they do with students—and that includes how they give math tests. With many students working remotely, ...