University of California professors warn of declining college math skills, linking it to test-optional admissions and ...

A battle between “slimes” and “zoglins” could be the best way to calculate pi—at least for fans of this megahit game ...

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 ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Hundreds of high school students from across the southeast will connect at the College of Charleston on Saturday for the 49th annual Math Meet. The meet will be hosted by ...

Most people assume democracy can be made perfectly fair with the right voting rules but mathematics says otherwise. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem proves that no voting system can satisfy all fairness ...

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For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...