Many of us like to think that we’re fairly smart. But it can be a very humbling experience when you’re in the presence of ...

S. Korean mathematician solves 6-decade math puzzle Baek Jin-eon, a 31-year-old research fellow at the June E Huh Center for ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Nearly 10,000 CreateOn Crayola-branded pip-Cubes were recalled on Thursday, Dec. 4, for posing an "ingestion hazard" to children, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

Rubik's cubes are great for fun, fast-paced problem solving, but they also have a rich mathematical structure involving ideas of symmetry and connectivity. A 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube has 43 quintillion ...