Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, are expected to outperform ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

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

Trump targets RTX/Raytheon over slow Pentagon response, warning future defense contracts may hinge on ending stock buybacks.

While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

Chalkbeat Ideas is a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. An obscure university report has ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds on itself. What does that mean? It means that ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Math teachers at Utah's Hurricane High School are utilizing a nontraditional teaching approach to help their students succeed. The "Building Thinking Classrooms" strategy promotes collaboration.

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...