The International Math Olympiad (IMO) is a challenging math competition that has been held annually since 1959. AI models from Google DeepMind and OpenAI received gold medal scores in IMO for the ...
At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...
On Saturday night, around 250 high school students filed into MacMillan Hall for the closing ceremony of the inaugural Brown University Math Olympiad. The tournament, organized by a team of over 50 ...
A Roosevelt International Middle School student takes a math enrichment class by computer at home in 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Unified School District) This story first appeared at The 74, a ...
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 add, starting with ...