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Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She unpacks it piece by piece: bright, 3D-printed shapes that click together… ...
A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her ...
We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...
To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use ...
OpenAI researchers reveal how their experimental model, devoid of any external aids, powered through hours-long proofs to ...
"I get sent tricky maths questions all the time, so I thought this one would be a piece of cake," Bobby Seagull told Newsweek ...
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.
Despite the greatest strides in mathematics, these hard math problems remain unsolved. Take a crack at them yourself.
Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting ...