We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors ...

I believe we’re focused on the wrong end of the college education pipeline. Instead of asking if students can meet rigid college requirements, we should ask if our K–12 systems are designed for how ...

Teaching math to English learners in middle and high school requires a nuanced approach. Those students are often at very ...

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

An asteroid or a nuclear war can end the world. Mathematical musings from one’s armchair cannot. Birth rank seems to have no ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

By listening to recordings of students solving math problems, teachers can determine their next steps, such as how to pair ...

Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started.

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Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter ...