One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

Focusing on these behaviors gives a much clearer picture of a child's actual math skills and their confidence in using them.

In a Massachusetts school district, by 2021, after years of decline on the state test, only 12 percent of middle schoolers ...

Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to ...

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Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

A Polish mathematician who once described artificial intelligence as “a very advanced calculator” has been left stunned after an AI model managed to solve a research-level mathematics problem he spent ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little harder for some than others. When given ...