It is estimated that Datang, China, makes enough socks to supply every person on the planet with two pairs each.

Cecilia Lopez Alvarado passed high school math with A’s and B’s. But in college, she effectively had to start over. Here’s ...

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

One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she’s trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean ...

An EdWeek Research Center survey finds that educators see older students' lack of progress in the subject as an acute problem ...

The theory behind index investing is rooted in the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) developed by Nobel laureate Eugene Fama ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

A Chinese research team has reportedly used artificial intelligence to crack a long-standing mathematical problem first proposed by an American scholar more than a decade ago. The conjecture, ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Pro model has apparently solved Erdős open math problem #1196. The model reportedly found the solution in about 80 minutes and prepared it as a LaTeX paper in another 30. Formal ...

A Chinese artificial intelligence system has solved a decade-old problem proposed by an American mathematician, according to a new study. The algebra conjecture was first posed in 2014 by then ...