This month, 30 mathematicians gathered at Harvard University to grade a consequential and difficult problem set. This wasn’t just any test; its outcome would guide a field grappling with existential ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...

Some Anne Arundel County middle schoolers will spend more time in math class next academic year amid a pilot program. The initiative will launch at Arundel, Corkran and Wiley H. Bates middle schools, ...

Mayor Mamdani is moving forward with an expansion of New York City’s curriculum reforms started under ex-Mayor Eric Adams, including changes to how math is taught in elementary schools and reading in ...

LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) -- There are major changes ahead for the more than 900,000 students in New York City Public Schools, that will come from both inside, and outside the classroom. One ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

At three public schools in Mesquite, some kids are making money for doing math. Each time they complete 30 addition problems correctly within 60 seconds, for example, they get a badge that earns them ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced dynamic visual explanations, a new ChatGPT feature that allows users to see how formulas, variables, and mathematical relationships change in real time. Instead of just ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and fat-shaming questions included on ninth-grade Algebra I quizzes, according to ...