Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...

Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answer on December 30 for puzzle #933 is the same ...

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Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Gil Gerard, best known to a generation of television viewers as the star of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, died on December ...

Nearly half of young New Yorkers statewide are still missing the mark on standardized math and English exams, according to newly released data. The state Education Department released its yearly ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

We also released a huge number of updates for our assessments: including whānau reporting and item-level reporting for PATs, ...

If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...