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Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Business leaders can’t outsource mathematical thinking to AI without sacrificing judgment, because real-world business problems demand practical, approximate reasoning rather than pristine textbook ...

(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 ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI that “evolves” code solutions, rediscovered and improved proofs for the finite-field Kakeya conjecture. Gemini Deep Think verified the logic, and AlphaProof formalized the ...

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...