A dad was checking through his daughter’s homework when he came across something unexpected and utterly hilarious. Jordan, from New Jersey, told Newsweek he was looking through one of his 7-year-old ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Mathematician Johannes Schmitt reports that GPT-5 has independently solved an open mathematical problem for the first time. The resulting paper clearly documents the collaboration between humans and ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

Henry F. Haidar ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, is an Applied Math concentrator in Lowell House. Last week, Harvard sent undergraduates an email ominously titled “An Update on Grading.” Walking into ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...

The Eureka Fire Protection District is asking voters on Aug. 5 to approve a tax increase of 34 cents per $100 assessed valuation. Eureka Fire would use the additional funds from the tax increase to ...

A seemingly simple math problem has left social media users confused as they argue over the correct answer. The equation, shared by user @BholanathDutta on X, appears simple enough for grade school ...