Teaching children to use spatial reasoning cues could help them understand how numbers relate to one another, a fundamental concept in early math education. Two Lynch School researchers are exploring ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

DeepMind has used a large language model (LLM) to generate a novel solution to one of humanity’s toughest math problems — in a breakthrough that could herald a new era in AI development. The model, ...

Janet Godwin is the CEO of ACT Inc., the nonprofit assessment organization based in Iowa City, Iowa. America’s STEM crisis is real, and it is getting worse. Recently released scores from the Nation’s ...

With technology advancing so quickly these days, students are often in search of efficient and reliable solutions to tackle math assignments. One such solution that has gained significant attention is ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what ...