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

An EdWeek video describes an Indiana school's use of tutoring and courses with different levels of rigor to help students.

Why play matters: Shifting math from rigid drills to playful exploration helps reduce anxiety and fosters a lasting love for learning. Hands-on magic: From LEGO-based lessons to interactive museum ...

Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

Large language models are advancing in solving complex physics problems, from symbolic reasoning to multi-step quantum calculations. New research shows their ability to handle intricate derivations ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes. Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check ...

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 ...