AI has become an engine of the S&P 500, a central pillar of the U.S. economy and a core part of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda.

Some math problems are designed in ways that reward simplicity rather than analytical depth. Research shows that highly intelligent individuals are more likely to overthink these problems, leading to ...

Mathematics be a tricky subject, and many students struggle to get the hang of it, finding it difficult to solve problems and equations in class. It requires a special sort of attention that one can’t ...

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While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

Math is the sum of its parts, and it adds on itself. What does that mean? It means that multiplication is just repeated addition. And that mastering the times tables will help students simplify ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI that “evolves” code solutions, rediscovered and improved proofs for the finite-field Kakeya conjecture. Gemini Deep Think verified the logic, and AlphaProof formalized the ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...