Flex your math muscles with this weekend’s brain teaser. Play now ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

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 ...

Replacing a $110,000 salary entirely through portfolio income is a math problem before it becomes an investment problem. On a $1.85 million portfolio, generating that level of income requires a yield ...

Allen East sixth graders in a math intervention class raised $979 for the Veterans Food Pantry of Northwest Ohio through a creative “Math-A-Thon” fundraiser. Students collected pledges based on the ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Mayor Mamdani and city Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels on May 21 announced the expansion of two reading and math curriculum ...

After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the ...

Whispers and the sound of calculator buttons being pressed filled the hallways of Sandpoint High School on Tuesday evening.

From hushed concentration to bursts of excitement, the 41st annual Math Super Bowl brought fierce academic competition to the ...