Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

In Spring 2025, we — Lilly Fang, Lester Mackey and our two children — noticed that something odd was happening to our family.

A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi ...

Thanks to the popularity of the formula curated by Wordle, there's no shortage of daily puzzle games that use letters, ...

A 30° – 60° – 90° triangle is packed with an infinite number of circles. Due to time constraints, only a few circles are drawn, although they are infinite. The circles are tangent to adjacent circles ...

Researchers in Barcelona conducted experiments with four zoo giraffes that indicate the animals might be capable of basic math.

From the second number onward, each number in the sequence is the product of the digits of its predecessor. The next two numbers are therefore 3 × 3 × 6 = 54 and 5 × 4 = 20. All subsequent numbers in ...

The experiment, by two education researchers, asked the chatbot to solve a version of the “doubling the square” problem – a lesson described by Plato in about 385 BCE and, the paper suggests, “perhaps ...