Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot ...

The postponement of grade six education reforms has sparked a national firestorm, centered on a scandalous digital link that ...

Abstract: We present a multi-way parallel corpus of Math Word Problems (MWPs) in nine languages, including six low-resource languages. To date, this is the largest multilingual MWP dataset available.

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

The machinery behind machine learning is growing more complex, but the bottleneck often shows up in small, unglamorous work: backfilling data, retiring stale features, and keeping experiments moving ...

The Collatz Conjecture is defined by a rule simple enough for a child to follow. No matter what number you start with, the process always appears to end the same way — and it has never been observed ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

An elementary math problem has divided the internet after an easy-looking equation turned out to be anything but simple. Many X users were stumped by the problem 16 ÷ 4 X 4 - 4, posted by ...

According to God of Prompt on Twitter, GPT-5.2 Thinking has achieved a perfect score of 100% on the AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Examination) without using external tools (source: God of ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...