New research examines Finnish lower secondary special needs math instruction via a survey of teachers, focusing on topics ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

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 ...

You’re never too old to learn something new. People are losing their minds over how simple — yet tricky — an elementary school-level math equation posted on X (formerly Twitter) is. Over the weekend, ...

Quantum computers are already here, but they make far too many errors. This is arguably the biggest obstacle to the technology really becoming useful, but recent breakthroughs suggest a solution may ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed that certain equations have no solutions in whole numbers. For centuries, ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

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 ...