The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics makes the argument that teachers, principals, and district leaders must “stay ...

A team from Thomas Jefferson High School will compete for the top prize in the annual MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge.

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

Let’s get real. At some point in your life, you’ll come across a “hear me out” moment, where you’re faced with the ...

Milwaukee has demand for a new office tower, but developers say the project is not financially feasible. Developers say they ...

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 ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little harder for some than others. When given ...