Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before giving it all up and disappearing. Jacob Aron explores what his work meant ...

Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.

An unknot (also known as the trivial knot) can be drawn with any number of crossings. Any possible manipulation of a knot diagram that does not fundamentally change the knot can be achieved by a ...

Short-term memory is finite and fills up quickly. Here are 7 ways we can free up space for clearer-headed mathematical thinking.

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...

Washington's students' test scores have revealed startling results, with nearly one-third of students failing to reach basic grade level skills in math.

In everyday life and across nearly every industry, mathematical reasoning is becoming more essential. We need to rapidly expand access to the after-school and summer programs that help young people ...

When fifth-grade teacher Ana Sanchez handed out the math pop quiz Tuesday before lunch and recess, none of the students were excited. No talking allowed, Sanchez reminded her students at Mount Rose ...

On math skills, students in Washington are lagging kids in 14 other states, making this the moment for our top education official to show leadership.

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

By incorporating this quick physical game into a math lesson, teachers help students focus on the task at hand.

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